Teen pleads guilty in robbery, shooting

YOUNGSTOWN -- A third teenager has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the 2004 shooting of an East Side convenience store owner during a robbery.
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court will sentence Ronald Lee Robinson, 19, of Berkley Avenue, later for attempted aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and kidnapping with firearm specifications. Robinson entered his pleas late last week.
Judge Krichbaum also will sentence Montrell D. Sims, 18, of South Truesdale Avenue, and Isael Roman III, 18, of Rosewood Avenue, who also pleaded guilty earlier last week to the same charges as Robinson.
All three were accused of robbing the Big Apple Supermarket on McGuffey Road of cash and cigarettes in March 2004 and shooting the store owner, Jihad Mahd, in the mouth. Mahd, 58, of Youngstown, survived. They also forced a relative of Mahd's from the store.
A fourth defendant, Philip J. Austin, 22, of Rosewood Avenue, already is serving an eight-year prison sentence for aggravated robbery and felonious assault with firearm specifications.