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YOUNGSTOWN Brian Donlow Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing Christopher Jackson Jr. on Nov. 18, 2018, in a car at the corner of Bennington and Stewart avenues on the East Side.
Donlow, 26, of Detroit Avenue, already was serving a sentence of 21 years to life after being convicted last year of another 2018 East Side murder the shooting death of Brandon Wylie, 30, on June 18, 2018.
Judge Anthony D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court ordered Donlow’s new sentence be served in addition to his earlier one. The judge handed down both sentences and oversaw both trials.
Staff photo / Ed Runyan
Eddie Crook Jr. looks into the gallery Monday while apologizing to the woman he assaulted July 5, fracturing her jaw in three places and causing other injuries. At right is Crookâs attorney, Paul Conn.
Crook was working as a temporary employee and was training with AstroShapes of Struthers when he assaulted the woman, who was training him on a machine. At right is Crookâs attorney, Paul Conn.
YOUNGSTOWN Eddie L. Crook Jr., 29, of Youngstown had been out of prison about eight months when he assaulted a supervisor at AstroShapes in Struthers last July, breaking her jaw in three places and cutting her face.
May 11, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN – Brian Donlow Jr. of Youngstown, 26, who was convicted at trial last month, received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole Tuesday for killing Christopher Jackson Jr., 21, of Warren Nov. 18, 2018.
That sentence is in addition to the 21-years-to-life in prison he received in February 2020, also in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, for killing Brandon Wylie, 30, June 18, 2018, five months before the Jackson killing.
Both killings took place on Youngstown’s East Side.
For more on this story, read Wednesday’s Vindicator.
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YOUNGSTOWN An aggravated murder trial that might hinge on an unusual type of identification of the suspect won’t go forward Monday, after defense attorneys cried foul last week.
Attorneys David Betras and Patrick Kirally filed a motion in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court asking that the trial of Lavontae E. Knight be postponed or certain evidence be tossed because they were not given evidence in the state’s possession favorable to the defense until April 30 10 days before the trial was supposed to begin.
The evidence is related to a photo lineup police showed to a witness in the case.