Brady gets six months for vehicular homicide

YOUNGSTOWN — A man who was convicted by a jury last week of vehicular homicide in the death of a well-known local social worker has been sentenced to six months of incarceration concurrent with a five-year prison term he’s now serving for an unrelated aggravated robbery with a firearm specification.

Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence this morning on Eric Brady, 26, of East Avondale Avenue. She also suspended his driver’s license for five years.

On Friday, at the end of a four-day trial, the jury convicted Brady of the first degree misdemeanor charge in the death of Kim Sullivan, 42, of Austintown.

Sullivan died Jan. 18, 2009, immediately following a 7 a.m. accident in the 100 block of South Meridian Road.

She was a judicial advocate for the Sojourner House domestic violence shelter.

After just over four hours of deliberations, the jury acquitted Brady of failing to stop after an accident and of aggravated vehicular homicide, but convicted him of the lesser included offense of vehicular homicide.