Man pleads guilty to murder

Staff report

WARREN

A Warren man has pleaded guilty to two counts of murder with gun specifications and has received two concurrent sentences of 18 years to life in prison in an Aug. 2, 2009, double murder.

Judge Peter J. Kontos, of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, immediately imposed the sentence Tuesday on Michael L. McDonald, 26, after he entered his plea.

McDonald originally was charged with two counts of aggravated murder with death-penalty specifications in the deaths of Donte Broadus and Mocha Jones, both of Warren, who were both fatally shot in the upper torso just after 3 a.m. in the 1700 block of Colt Court on the city’s southwest side.

The case was prosecuted by Christopher Becker, assistant county prosecutor. The defense lawyers were Heidi Hanni and Shelli Ellen Freeze of Boardman.