Maximum sentence in shooting death over game

Maximum sentence in shooting death over game

YOUNGSTOWN — Allen K. Frost got the maximum sentence — 13 years in prison — in the shooting death of Gregory Sopher last Oct. 27.

Sopher of Canfield was shot after losing a bet on a video game.

On Friday, Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court adhered to the sentencing recommendation of Robert J. Andrews, assistant county prosecutor, and sent Frost, 37, of Crandall Avenue, to prison for 10 years for the homicide and three consecutive years for a firearm specification.

Frost had originally been facing a murder charge, which alleged he purposely killed Sopher. But a jury convicted him last month on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, which states that the death occurred after provocation from the victim.

Andrews said Frost shot Sopher, 18, in the head with a .38-caliber revolver at close range and deliberately killed him after Sopher lost a bet on a video game to Frost in Frost’s residence.

Read more in Saturday’s Vindicator and at vindy.com