Repchic grandson tells Toney: Here's the kind of guy you killed

YOUNGSTOWN

Aubrey Toney had nothing to say just before he was sentenced Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to 29 years to life in prison for killing 74-year-old Thomas Repchic and wounding his wife, Jacqueline, in 2010.

But the Repchics’ grandson, Thomas McBride, had plenty to say to Toney, who was convicted of murder, felonious assault and firearm specifications in a case that police said was one of mistaken identity.

Speaking before Judge Maureen Sweeney, McBride first told the court about the kind of person his grandfather was. He said his grandfather was all about family and loved working in his yard with no shirt on, even though he was in his 70s, and he loved to repair things.

“If you drove past his house he would wave to you,” McBride said.

Police say Toney, 33, was feuding with another man and found out that the man was driving a car similar to the Repchics’ on Sept. 25, 2010. He then borrowed an SUV from a cousin, and when he saw the car, he fired several shots at it from an assault rifle at East Philadelphia and Southern Boulevard in Youngstown, killing Thomas Repchic and wounding his wife, who was 74 at the time. Her foot had to be amputated because of the shooting.

A jury convicted Toney earlier this month, but found him innocent of aggravated murder with death-penalty specifications and attempted murder.

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