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Murder suspect found guilty of domestic violence
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
An 18-year-old arrested in December while on house arrest for a murder charge was convicted of domestic violence in Youngstown Municipal Court.
Kalontae Carter, who was convicted by a jury after a one-day trial, was sentenced Monday to 180 days in jail with 90 days suspended and given credit for the other 90 days he has served since his arrest in December.
The charge is a misdemeanor.
Police arrested Carter on Dec. 17 at a Norwood Avenue home. Police were called there for a fight between mother and son about 7:10 a.m. When they arrived, his mother said Carter had beaten her in the arm and face.
The mother wanted Carter to leave the home but did not want him arrested, reports said.
Carter told the officers he hit his mother after she first struck him. The report said there were no marks on Carter, but the mother told police they were arguing before he hit her three times in the face then threw her on a bed. He also was wearing an ankle bracelet for his house arrest.
Carter is charged with the April 29 shooting death of Kristopher Stuart, 26, who was found by police with a revolver in both hands.
Carter and another man charged with Stuart’s death, DeJuan Thomas, were both wounded in the same shooting. Carter was on house arrest from the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center when he was arrested in December.
Carter was charged as a juvenile because he was 17 at the time of the shooting. After he was arrested in December, a $50,000 bond was placed on him at his arraignment in municipal court and he has been in the jail since then.
He has a final pretrial hearing in juvenile court on the murder case April 17.