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Victims’ families lash out at Hutsenpiller
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Karenda Hutsenpiller
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Family members of two dead men lashed out at Karenda A. Hutsenpiller, 23, of Fifth Street Southwest, on Thursday morning before Judge John A. Stuard sentenced her to 15 years in prison.
“Hoss would have given the shirt off his back to anyone who needed it, which is why I don’t understand why you had to take his life,” said Erin Nadaud of Warren. Nadaud and Rahman Warfield, known as Hoss, had a son together.
“It made me angry that you took the lives of two people and that’s all you got,” Nadaud said of the plea agreement in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court that called for 15 years in prison.
Nadaud said Hutsenpiller showed no remorse during earlier court hearings. “You have no soul. There’s a place for people like you, and it’s hell,” Nadaud said.
Hutsenpiller declined to make a statement before sentencing.
Hutsenpiller pleaded guilty to reduced charges of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence earlier this month in the killings of Warfield, 34, of 1123 McKinley St. NE, and Steven S. Faison, 24, of Duke Avenue Southeast.
Prosecutors said Hutsepiller shot the two men to death May 9 at Warfield’s house after Hutsenpiller went there to buy drugs.
Warfield and Faison both had lengthy criminal records.
Faison’s father, Ricky Ellis, who Judge Stuard asked to direct his comments to the judge and not to Hutsenpiller, said, “What you’ve done to two families — the hurt and pain — will never go away. We have to live with that the rest of our lives.”
He added, “They’re not here. You shouldn’t be here.”
Chris Becker, an assistant county prosecutor, said prosecutors agreed to reduce charges from murder to involuntary manslaughter because there were no eyewitnesses to the killings and “very little” forensic evidence available at the crime scene. The gun Hutsenpiller used was never recovered.