Couple enters pleas in ‘15 North Side shooting

By Joe Gorman

jgorman@vindy.com

YOUNGSTOWN

A couple charged with gunning a man down on a North Side street in 2015 as part of a lovers triangle entered guilty pleas Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Judge Maureen A. Sweeney sentenced Evegenia Hull, 36, to six years in prison after she pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted murder.

Her husband, Thomas Hull, 60, was sentenced to five years’ probation in a hearing just before hers after pleading guilty to a charge of complicity to commit felonious assault.

Police said Evegenia Hull shot Larry Robinson, 50, on May 13, 2015, at Elm Street and Madison Avenue. Police said Robinson was shot as he was driving an SUV. Thomas Hull drove his wife to the shooting, which police said was part of a lovers’ triangle.

Reports said Robinson was shot in his SUV as he was driving, and the SUV stopped. Evegenia Hull then got out of a van her husband was driving, fired several more shots and ran away.

Robinson recovered but was not present in court for the pleas and sentences.

Evegenia Hull entered an Alford Plea, which means while she maintains her innocence, she admits there is enough evidence that a jury could reasonably conclude she committed the crime. She also received credit for more than 800 days she has served in the county jail while awaiting the disposition of her case.

Neither defendant spoke when they had the opportunity to do so. Thomas Hull’s attorney, J. Gerald Ingram, called the case a “long and arduous” one.