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Man who said he ‘shot my lover’ in Brookfield gets 12 more years in prison
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Marvin Jules, 34, who cried and moaned as he told a dispatcher Feb. 22 “I shot my lover” because of jealousy, will spend 12 years in prison.
Jules pleaded guilty Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to kidnapping, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
A psychiatrist in November said Jules faked being mentally ill during a mental-health evaluation. Judge W. Wyatt McKay ruled him competent to stand trial.
During Jules’ 11-minute 911 call, police responded to the home on Ulp Street in Brookfield where Jules had been living with Lynda Campbell, 54, and also responded to the Orange Village nursing home a short distance away, where Jules told the dispatcher he had gone after the shooting. He also told the dispatcher “I shot my lover” out of jealousy.
Jules was arrested without incident inside the nursing home. Jules could be heard telling someone there: “The cops are coming. I just shot someone.”
Campbell suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the attack and underwent multiple surgeries to repair the damage.
She wasn’t able to talk to police right away, but she was released from the hospital about a month later and confirmed Jules had shot her.
Chris Becker, assistant county prosecutor, said after the hearing, “Thank God he didn’t kill her.”
Jules threw the gun he used into a field near the home, and police later recovered it.
Campbell did not attend the hearing Wednesday, but Becker said she was satisfied with the plea agreement.
Jules briefly apologized during the hearing.
Court records out of Mercer County, Pa., indicate that Jules had been convicted of misdemeanor criminal offenses there three times between 2008 and 2011 for incidents in Sharon, Pa.
According to the Sharon Herald newspaper and court records, Jules was arrested in September 2008 for stabbing a 20-year-old man, of Farrell, Pa., when the man intervened in a domestic dispute involving Jules and a woman.
A jury in Mercer County found him guilty in October 2010 of receiving stolen property, and he was sentenced to a term of nine to 18 months in the Mercer County jail.
In January 2011, he was sentenced to 196 days to 23 months in jail after being convicted of attempted theft from a motor vehicle in Sharon.
Becker said Jules also was sentenced to six years in prison in Trenton, N.J., in 2001 for a robbery. He was incarcerated from October 2001 to July 2006, Becker said.