Paintsville man sentenced to 10 years in assult case

By Lilly Adkins
BSN Associate Editor

PAINTSVILLE — A Johnson County man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a first-degree assault conviction returned in February. A Johnson Circuit Court jury recommended the sentence for Jack Music, 42, of Paintsville, after finding him guilty Feb. 18 in the shooting of Bradley Bricker. His sentencing was postponed from March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Music was charged with first-degree assault in connection with the shooting, which occurred April 13, 2019, at Highland Apartments in Paintsville, where his grandmother lived. It was reported at the time of the incident that officers Shane Cantrell, Brian Runyon and Captain Jonathan Holbrook of the Paintsville Police Department responded to the shooting, where they located Music in his grandmother’s apartment. The citation said the officers found two spent 9-mm shells on the ground and then located a gun inside the apartment. After they were granted consent to search, they also located what appeared to be silencers. Music told the officers that he shot at Bricker twice because he “dirtied up his grandmother’s kitchen.” The case was prosecuted by the team of First Assistant Matt Runyon and Adam Gearheart. The case was investigated by the Paintsville City Police Department, led by Holbrook and Runyon.