Judge allows guns, drug evidence to be admitted in Kevin Agee murder trial

YOUNGSTOWN — Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court ruled the jury in the case against 26-year-old Kevin Agee can see guns stored at the defendant’s house.

She also ruled jurors can hear testimony regarding cocaine found at the residence when Agee was arrested.

Testimony and arguments began earlier this week in Agee’s capital murder trial. He is charged in connection with the mistaken-identity shooting of an elderly couple nearly two years ago.

Authorities said Agee, with co-defendant 30-year-old Aubrey Toney, shot and killed Thomas Repchic, 74, of Trenton Avenue, blocks away from the victim’s home on the city’s South Side in September 2010.

Repchic’s wife Jacqueline, 74 at the time, was wounded and ultimately lost a leg as a result of the shooting.

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