Warren man is sentenced for abduction, assault

WARREN — A city man convicted of abducting and assaulting a former girlfriend while wearing a hockey mask in a West Market Street home has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Danny B. Parker II, 20, received the sentence Tuesday by Judge Andrew Logan in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

He was indicted on the more serious charges of kidnapping and felonious assault, but a jury found him guilty of the lesser charges at the end of a trial last month.

During testimony, Parker admitted having punched former girlfriend Lacy Wood on Feb. 4. He said the punch knocked her unconscious but that he did it as a reflex after she kicked him in the groin.

The encounter occurred as Parker pulled Wood off his current girlfriend at the time, Ashley Sechler, while the two women were fighting.

Parker also testified that when another man in the home, Norman Morgan, tied up Wood’s 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.

Morgan is scheduled to go on trial for similar charges Sept. 24.

Sechler testified that Parker used the mask and a circular saw in a scene similar to the “Friday the 13th” horror movies, but Parker denied using the mask or saw, and denied causing all the injuries Wood received to her face.