March 14 – Lima – Ronnie Brown, one of the four young people Lima involved in a robbery on Greenlawn Avenue in February 2024, who left a dead young woman, was sentenced to at least nine years in prison.
Brown, 17 years old, along with teenagers, Cardarius Burns and Malik Dennis, have now been convicted of their roles in the incident on February 13, who eventually led to the death of Laured Sterling.
Ariel Sterling, Lauralye’s twin sister, saw the case related to the Adult Court. She was charged this week by a great jury of Allen County on the charges of aggravated robbery, criminal attack with a specification of firearm and large theft when the property is a firearm of a dangerous ordinance.
Judge Jeffrey Reed, Jeffrey Reed, sentenced Brown to a time of prison from 6 to 9 years old, on the charges of robbery, plus three years of compulsory imprisonment for a specification attached.
Dennis, who acknowledged that he had a blow to kill Sterling, was guilty of involuntary murder and currently executes a 25 -year prison sentence. Burns, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, executes a 10 -year prison sentence for aggravated robbery.
During a February 2024 hearing at the Municipal Court of Lima, the detective of the Lima Police Department, Jesse Harrod, told how Dennis scaled an exterior television antenna at a Greenlawn Avenue house and downloaded a firearm through a residence window, killing Lauralye Sterling.
Steve Chamberlain, from the Office of Public Defenders in Allen County, asked Harrod if, during the investigation into Sterling’s death, it was found that Dennis had been robbed shortly before shooting. The detective said that during a police interview, Dennis claimed that he was robbed by two young people in the residence of Greenlawn Avenue. At that moment, Harrod said, Dennis left briefly and returned with the usual firearm to shoot Sterling.
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