Execution date set for Trumbull County death-row inmate

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Supreme Court set execution date for a Trumbull County man convicted of killing two people at his former workplace in Warren.

Roderick Davie, also known as Abdul Hakiym Zakiy, is scheduled for lethal injection on Aug. 10 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

He was found guilty in 1992 of the murders of John Ira Coleman and Tracey Jefferys and the attempted murder of William Everett two months after being fired from the Veterinary Companies of America in June 1991.

According to documents, Davie shot Coleman and Everett multiple times and beat Jefferys to death with a folding chair.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins filed a motion in November to set the execution date, stating that the inmate had exhausted all of his state and federal court appeals.