Sep 30, 2024 · Jury selection will begin Monday in the murder trial of a 58-year-old Copley man charged in the deaths of three men found bound, gagged, shot in the head and dumped off the side of two roads in March 2023 in Akron and Copley Township.

Jul 7, 2023 · • The first first murder in Akron in 2023 was Jan. 24, when 32-year-old Martel Tatum, of Akron, was found unresponsive about 6 p.m. in the driver's seat of a car parked in the middle of the road in the 800 block of Haynes Street in Sherbondy Hill. Police responded to reports of gunfire and he died of a gunshot wound about 8:30 p.m. at ...

Aug 15, 2024 · The two people who were shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a Taco Bell drive-thru Wednesday night in Stow were identified Thursday. The Summit County Medical Examiner determined Jason Williams, 53, from Stow, was the person who fired the shots before turning the gun on himself. He killed Megan Keleman, 25, from Stow.

Aug 15, 2024 · Two people are dead following an apparent murder-suicide in the drive-thru of the Taco Bell on Graham Road in Stow around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Stow Police Captain Bryan Snavely confirmed. The Taco Bell at 993 Graham Road on the border of Stow and Cuyahoga Falls was surrounded by police cars around 9 p.m. Wednesday, along with fire department ...

Dec 28, 2021 · After seven murders were recorded in July, the city was averaging more than one murder per week. Killings remained at that level until the last death on Oct. 12, when the 42nd murder was recorded in the 41st week of the year. The vast majority of murders this year – 39 – were due to gunshots. Also, 62% of victims were younger than 30.

Mar 18, 2021 · The change garnered some interesting allies, including Browns offensive linemen Chris Hubbard and Kendall Lamm, who wrote a letter to Ohio senators supporting the legislation. The players highlighted how five of the 12 people sentenced to life without parole as juveniles are Black, despite Black Ohioans comprising only 14.3% of the population.

Mar 4, 2024 · Akron police on Monday charged Cynthia George, a central figure in the 2001 murder of Jeffrey Zack, with complicity to commit aggravated murder. The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested George, 50, of Granger Township, around 8 p.m. at the West Market Plaza in Bath Township. She was in Summit County Jail on Monday evening.

Mar 11, 2022 · Both Chad Cobb and his and Biggs’ daughter, who is now a teenager, testified in Stefanko’s trial. The daughter recalled Stefanko ordering a pizza and using a fake name on the night of Biggs’ murder. Teen daughter of victim testifies:Daughter of slain woman recalls stepmother ordering pizza on the night of the murder

Feb 8, 2024 · Puffenbarger, 26, was found dead in her Twinsburg Township home in 1992. She had been beaten, strangled and suffocated. Her two sons, Dustin and Derrek, ages 3 and 2, were home but were unharmed. Willard McCarley was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to life in prison with possible parole after 20 years in 2017 in his third trial ...

Aug 9, 2022 · The other victim survived. Keith A. Soto, 37, of Euclid, is charged with aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, aggravated robbery, tampering with evidence and having weapons under disability. • Raymond Jones Jr., 38, was shot in the torso Feb. 22 at his home in the 500 block of Ritchie Avenue in West Akron. Police said he was shot by ...