Jury to decide kidnapping case

WARREN — The jury went home for the day Thursday, after deliberating about 90 minutes in the kidnapping and felonious assault trial of Danny Parker of West Market Street, accused of wearing a “Friday the 13th”-type goalie mask while terrorizing a former girlfriend.

Danny B. Parker II, 20, took the witness stand Thursday on the fourth day of his trial in the Trumbull County Common Pleas courtroom of Judge Andrew Logan.

Parker admitted that when former girlfriend Lacy Wood came into the house near Penn Avenue where he lived on Feb. 4 — and began fighting with Ashley Sechler, who was his current girlfriend at the time — he did punch Wood in the cheek and knocked her unconscious.

This happened “as a reflex” to Wood kicking him in the groin area, he said.

Parker said he also tied up Wood at that point because he feared she would become agitated when she regained consciousness.

When another man in the home, Norman Morgan, tied up her legs and started dragging her down the stairs, Parker helped carry her the rest of the way — because her head was hitting the stairs, he said.

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