YOUNGSTOWN Prosecutors and a defense attorney will be paying a lot of attention to Facebook pages and cellphones connected to the Sept. 21 shooting death of Rowan Sweeney, 4.
That fact was revealed in Mahoning County Juvenile Court on Thursday during a virtual pretrial hearing for a juvenile named in the case, Brandon Crump, 17.
Attorneys in the case mentioned that there are lots of witnesses, too and that several of them knew Kimonie Bryant, 24, the Struthers man accused of killing Rowan.
Rowan died and four adults were shot in the home on Perry Street in Struthers where Rowan lived with his mother, Alexis Schneider, one of the shooting victims. The three others were Andre McCoy, Yarnell Green Jr. and Cassandra Marsicola.
Dec 17, 2020
YOUNGSTOWN A telephone pretrial hearing today in Mahoning County Juvenile Court revealed that prosecutors and a defense attorney will be paying a lot of attention to Facebook pages connected to the Sept. 21 shooting death of Rowan Sweeney, 4.
During a hearing on the aggravated robbery charge with a gun specification filed in juvenile court against Brandon Crump, 17, defense attorney Jeffery Kurz and two assistant prosecutors discussed the progress of evidence that prosecutors are gathering and eventually sharing with Kurz.
They discussed two Facebook pages Crump has, which presumably contain information that prosecutors will want to use if the next hearing Jan. 11 goes to a juvenile-court trial.