Louis Mann indicted on death penalty charges

WARREN

Louis R. Mann, accused of brutally killing his parents on Friday at their Jefferson Street Southwest home, has been indicted on charges that could result in the death penalty.

A Trumbull County grand jury handed up indictments on Thursday charging Mann, 31, of Warren and Newton Falls, with two counts of aggravated murder with specifications that he killed more than one person, committed a robbery along with the murders and that he used a firearm during the murders.

He is also indicted on aggravated robbery, accused of taking his father’s 1982 Cadillac DeVille after killing his parents.

The multiple murders, and committing a robbery along with the murders, are aggravating circumstances that can result in the death penalty.

According to an affidavit filed with Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, Louis Mann admitted to strangling his mother with a clothesline during an argument with her, then killing his father by beating him in the head with a flashlight and shooting him.

Louis Mann will be arraigned on the charges at 2:30 p.m. Thursday before Judge John M. Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.