Wilks sentencing is Wednesday

YOUNGSTOWN

Sentencing will be 10 a.m. Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for a man facing the death penalty for the murder of a woman on a North Side porch last May.

Jurors recommended May 5 that 42-year-old Willie Wilks receive the death penalty for the murder of 20-year-old Ororo Wilkins as she sat on a Park Avenue porch. Wilks was also found guilty of attempted murder for wounding a man in the back and firing a shot at Wilkins’ brother but missing.

Judge Lou A. D’Apolito can either accept or reject the jury’s recommendation.