Two Men Charged in Separate Cases Announced Aug. 10; Neither Has Been Tried

Two unrelated criminal cases were announced on August 10, 2026 — one brought by the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office in Ohio, the other in Savannah, Georgia — and both stand in the verified record at the charging stage only, as reported by fox19.com and wtoc.com. Neither case has been tried or decided. Both remain open and undecided, and each defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.

The two defendants named are Deonte Wilson, 26, and Michael William Eden, 48, of Savannah, Georgia, according to fox19.com and wtoc.com.

The sources give two separate accounts of the conduct alleged, and neither account covers both cases. In the Ohio matter, the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office alleges that Wilson killed a 50-year-old in a robbery on May 16, 2017, at 1906 Fairmount Avenue in South Fairmount, during what the prosecutor's office says was supposed to be a purchase of marijuana, according to fox19.com. In the Georgia matter, prosecutors allege that Eden gave Taylor Reed Williams a substance containing fentanyl on April 6, 2026, representing it as a controlled substance, and that Williams died the following day; authorities say Eden was found in possession of a shotgun and a .38 pistol, wtoc.com reported. Both are allegations by prosecutors, untested at trial.

The charges reported across the two cases, as reported by fox19.com and wtoc.com, are:

• three counts of murder
• two counts of felonious assault
• two counts of robbery
• Felony murder
• Aggravated involuntary manslaughter
• Sale of fentanyl
• Sale of alprazolam
• 2x Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

Cincinnati Police and the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team are the investigating agencies named in the reporting.

A guilty plea was flagged to this newsroom as a later development in one of the two cases, but the verified record available for this report contains nothing about it — not which defendant entered it, which counts were admitted, or what remains to be decided — so no plea is reported here.

An allegation in a charging document is not a finding of guilt. Nothing in the record supplied for this story shows either case reaching a verdict, a plea or any other disposition; both are unresolved as of the material available, and a reader encountering this report later should treat the outcome of each as unknown. Neither announcement from the prosecuting offices carried a presumption-of-innocence statement; the presumption applies regardless, to Wilson and to Eden alike.