Trial postponed

Trial postponed

WARREN

The aggravated-murder trial of TaShawn Walker, 27, charged with killing Richard Rollison IV, 24, at the Sunoco gas station Oct. 26, 2013, will not take place in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court next week as planned.

Walker’s attorney, Lynn Maro, has a federal trial that conflicts with the start of the Walker trial, so Judge Peter Kontos will have to reset the Walker trial date, a court official said.

Walker is accused of killing Rollison, of Niles, by shooting him seven times exactly one week after Walker’s brother, Taemarr Walker, 24, died in a confrontation with a Warren police officer.

A Warren Township police report says TaShawn Walker and his father went to a tavern in Warren Township earlier Oct. 26 to confront people celebrating Taemarr Walker’s death. Rollison was killed at the gas station shortly afterward.

Regan Jelks, 22, girlfriend of Taemarr Walker, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday morning by Judge Kontos on convictions for improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle connected to Taemarr Walker’s death.

Man charged with endangering child

GIRARD

Bertram Davis, 28, of Trumbull Avenue in Girard, remains in the Trumbull County jail in lieu of $5,000 bond, charged with child endangering, accused of bruising a 2-year-old boy’s leg while watching him at the home he shares with the boy’s mother.

Davis was arraigned Wednesday in Girard Municipal Court on the misdemeanor charge, pleading not guilty.

The boy’s mother said she noticed a bruise on the boy’s leg when she woke up Wednesday after being at work the night before.

Davis at first said the boy fell but later said Davis had to “correct the boy because he was being bad,” according to a police report.

Police described the bruising as being “a large area of [the boy’s] thigh going down his right leg.” The boy’s mother took him to ValleyCare Northside Medical Center for treatment.

The police report didn’t say whether Davis is the boy’s father.

Gun, drug charges

BOARDMAN

A Youngstown man faces a host of felony charges after township police raided an apartment on Applecrest Court.

U.S. marshals arrested Marcus Wilkins, 27, Wednesday on misdemeanor charges of possession of a defaced firearm and possession of drug paraphernalia, and felony charges of manufacturing drugs in the vicinity of a juvenile, three counts of trafficking in drugs and weapons under disability. Two of those charges are first-degree felonies.

The charges stem from a raid of a township apartment Feb. 11. Law-enforcement officials found a gun, cash, powdered cocaine, marijuana, ammunition, drug paraphernalia, crack cocaine and heroin in the apartment. A female associate of Wilkins’ with two young children reportedly rents the apartment, but police found items belonging to Wilkins there.

Wilkins is in the Mahoning County jail without bond.

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