Dumas convicted of murder

YOUNGSTOWN — An eight-woman, four-man jury convicted Nathaniel Dumas of murder and aggravated robbery with firearm specifications in an attempted robbery that resulted in a fatal police shooting at Galaxy Seafood on Belmont Avenue.

After 61⁄2 hours of deliberations, the jury rendered its verdict late this afternoon before Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who will sentence Dumas at 9:30 a.m. Friday.

Rebecca Doherty, chief of the criminal division in the county prosecutor’s office, said she would seek maximum consecutive sentences totaling 28 years to life in prison.

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