Trial set in vehicular homicide

staff report

YOUNGSTOWN — The woman accused of running a stop sign and causing the death of a pedestrian is set for trial in municipal court June 20.

Brandy Robinson, 18, of Willis Avenue remains free on bond.

She had been scheduled for a pretrial Tuesday but the case was set for trial when her lawyer filed a motion to continue, the court said. She is charged with vehicular homicide and two counts of child endangering, all first-degree misdemeanors, each punishable by up to six months in jail and up to a $1,000 fine.

The child-endangering charges apply to a 2-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl in Robinson’s car at the time.

Detective Sgt. Patricia Garcar, an accident investigator, has said Robinson ran a stop sign and killed Helen Mrosko, 39, of East Boston Avenue on April 8. Mrosko died after being pinned against the East Side Civics building on South Avenue.

Garcar said Robinson was traveling east on East Philadelphia Avenue and failed to stop for the stop sign at South Avenue. The 2003 Pontiac Grand Am driven by Robinson then struck a 2001 Dodge Neon traveling north on South Avenue before pinning Mrosko against the bar/restaurant at 2929 South Ave., the investigator said.

Mrosko, who worked at Belleria Pizza in Cornersburg, had just gotten off the bus on South Avenue and was walking on the sidewalk toward a tavern to meet her boyfriend when the accident took place, Garcar said.

Mahoning County Coroner David M. Kennedy ruled the death an accident.