Wednesday, January 20, 2010
YOUNGSTOWN — A city man sentenced to die in less than two weeks for the double murder of two convenience store clerks will not get a second trial.
Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court issued a ruling just after noon today denying Mark Aaron Brown a second trial. The ruling came after two days of testimony from witnesses to the 1994 shooting.
Brown is scheduled to die Feb. 4 for killing Isam Salman and Hayder Al-Turk in a North Side convenience store in January 1994. Brown, 21 at the time of the murders, was high on drugs when he entered the Midway Market on Elm Street and shot Salman, the store’s owner, and Al-Turk, a clerk working in the store.
Brown can appeal the judge’s decision, but it is unclear if an appeal will be filed.
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