Trumbull County man gets 54 years for Warren home-invasion

Staff report

WARREN

Allen Elkins IV, 31, was sentenced to 54 years in prison Wednesday after being convicted of shooting a man in the leg during a home-invasion burglary last June.

A jury in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court found Elkins guilty of two counts of aggravated burglary and single counts of felonious assault, kidnapping and aggravated robbery.

Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court deemed Elkins, who had addresses on Haymaker Avenue Northwest and Seneca Street in Niles, to be a repeat violent offender, which added time to his sentence.

Elkins was one of three men who broke into the house on Adelaide Avenue Southeast while a male resident was playing video games in the basement, police said.

The victim testified at the trial that a man he could not identify came down the basement steps of the home holding a gun to the head of another man. The lights were off.

The gunman pushed the other man out of the way and fired at the victim, who fired back. Elkins showed up later at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital with two gunshot wounds.

Elkins was sentenced to nine years in prison in Trumbull County in 2004, when he was 20, after being convicted of aggravated burglary, kidnapping, burglary and failure to comply with the order of a police officer.