Man sentenced in shooting death

Man sentenced in shooting death

YOUNGSTOWN — Terrance E. Brown was a righteous man who sacrificed his life trying to ensure the welfare of his nieces and nephews, the victim’s aunt and a prosecutor said before the man who killed him was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison.

Adopting the prosecutor’s recommendation, Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence today on Jonathan L. Clay, 24, of Winona Avenue. Clay was convicted by a jury last week of aggravated murder with a gun specification in the June 26 drive-by shooting death of Brown, 27, of South Truesdale Avenue.

The prosecution said Clay fired a shotgun blast from a sport-utility vehicle that hit Brown in the neck and killed him instantly as Brown tried to escape the gunfire by entering his sister’s apartment in the 1400 block of Woodcrest Avenue on the city’s East Side.

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