Sentenced imposed in case of BG man’s death
Published 6:00 am Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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Mayonna Jean Anthony
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Daivon Thompson
For her actions that contributed to the 2023 death of a Bowling Green man, a woman received a 15-year prison sentence Monday.
Mayonna Jean Anthony, 22, of Georgetown, was sentenced in Warren Circuit Court after previously pleading guilty to facilitation of first-degree manslaughter and two counts of tampering with physical evidence by complicity.
Anthony was accused of supplying information to Daivon Thompson that enable Thompson to locate and fatally shoot Malik Lassiter, 24, near his Russellville Road apartment on May 11, 2023.
Lassiter’s body was not found for another 13 months.
Anthony and Thompson each entered into plea agreements in May on the day their trial was set to begin, but Anthony later requested to withdraw from her agreement.
After a brief hearing last week, Anthony and her attorney, Wes Milliken, went forward with sentencing on Monday.
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A Bowling Green Police Department investigation determined that Anthony and Lassiter were in a relationship and that Lassiter had driven her home to Georgetown the night before he was last seen alive.
“I don’t understand why (Anthony) had to do this when he always went to her rescue,” Lassiter’s mother, Rosemary Lassiter, said during Monday’s sentencing hearing, appearing over Zoom. “I don’t know why she would do something like this to hurt our whole family.”
BGPD detectives spoke with an ex-girlfriend of Lassiter’s, who said that she spoke with him over Facetime late on the night of May 10, 2023, into the early morning hours of the next day and reported that Lassiter expressed worries to her about his relationship with Anthony, according to prior court testimony.
Police learned that Anthony and Thompson had previously been in a relationship with one another, and detectives used cell phone tower data to establish that a phone belonging to Thompson pinged off cell towers in Bowling Green on May 11, 2023.
The investigation established that Thompson traveled to Louisville, phoned Anthony, the continued to Georgetown, with Lassiter’s vehicle being observed in Lexington on several traffic cameras.
Cell phones belonging to Thompson and Anthony ping off a tower in Elsmere and are co-located together for about 12 hours before coming to a resting point in Columbus, Ohio, where police would find Lassiter’s vehicle.
According to court records, police noticed a smell of bleach from inside the vehicle and the presence of blood, and also recovered a hair and a fingerprint from the vehicle that were later identified as belonging to Thompson.
At Monday’s sentencing, Warren Circuit Judge Chris Cohron called Anthony’s actions “manipulative.”
“I have seen absolutely no remorse from you from the beginning of this case,” Cohron said to Anthony.
Thompson was also sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison after previously pleading guilty to charges of first-degree manslaughter and tampering with physical evidence.
