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Liberty, Mesopotamia men indicted in separate Trumbull homicides
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Two men were indicted on murder charges in separate homicides last week – one in Liberty Township and one in Mesopotamia Township.
Sean M. Clemens, 33, of Church Hill-Hubbard Road, Liberty, was indicted Tuesday on death-penalty-level charges in last week’s death of his elderly neighbor.
Clemens will be arraigned at 1:30 today in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on charges of aggravated murder with specifications of aggravating circumstances in the death of Jane Larue Brown, 84, who lived across the street from Clemens.
Clemens also is indicted on charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, arson and tampering with evidence.
Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, county coroner, ruled Brown’s death a homicide as a result of blunt dramatic injuries and an incision of the neck.
Brown was found dead in her home about 6:15 a.m. April 24 after neighbors called 911 about noises coming from a wooded area a few hundred yards away.
Police arrested Clemens, 33, later that day. He is in the county jail not eligible to make bond.
Douglas S. Day, 23, of Mesopotamia, was indicted on charges of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder in the death of his girlfriend’s mother and wounding of his girlfriend April 25 at the home Day and his girlfriend shared on state Route 87 near the state Route 534 intersection.
Day will be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Friday in common pleas court.
Day’s charges do not contain specifications that would allow him to get the death penalty. The maximum sentence if convicted would be life in prison without parole eligibility or lesser life sentences with parole eligibility after 20, 25 or 30 years in prison.
Police say Day killed Cathryn Lambert, 48, of Stow, with a gunshot to the neck and injured his girlfriend, Tiffany Lambert, 26, by shooting her.
Investigators said Cathryn Lambert was picking up Tiffany after Tiffany and Day had an argument.
The shootings occurred about 11:35 p.m. in the 4000 block of state Route 87.
Tiffany Lambert was taken to Geauga County Hospital and has since been released.
Day was arrested at his mother’s house in Roaming Shores, Ashtabula County, a few hours after the shootings. He remains in the county jail in lieu of $1 million bond.