Execution date set Aug. 10 for Trumbull killer

Execution date set Aug. 10 for Trumbull killer

The Trumbull murders took place almost 20 years ago.

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Supreme Court set execution dates for three death-row inmates, including 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 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.

According to documents, Davie shot Coleman and Everett multiple times and beat Jefferys to death with a folding chair in June 1991.

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

Watkins wrote, “Appellant’s actions on the morning of June 27, 1991, violently and abruptly ended the lives of two of his former co-workers and very nearly took the life of a third. The citizens of Ohio need to see a firm and final resolution to this dreadful example of workplace violence.”

Also Tuesday, the state’s high court set execution dates for William Garner, a Hamilton County man convicted in the 1992 murder of five children, and Kevin Keith, convicted in the 1994 murder of two adults and a child and the attempted murder of three others in Crawford County.

Garner is to be executed July 13, and Keith, Sept. 15.

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