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Man who helped alleged killer burn victim's body gets 54 months in prison
Kathy Fuhr anguished for nearly a week over the possibility her missing grandson had died a torturous death after his burning car was found in East Toledo with human remains in the back seat. That an autopsy revealed Josiah Gill, 20, had been shot in the head before he and his car were set ablaze beneath the I-280 Veterans’ Glass City Skyway provided little comfort. “He has taken away our closure, our chance to see Josiah’s face one last time,” Ms. Fuhr said Tuesday afternoon in Lucas County Common Pleas Court during the sentencing of Alexander Perez, 32, who helped another man dispose of Mr. Gill’s corpse. “Every cherished memory I have of Josiah becomes these images of horror instead,” the grandmother told Judge Dean Mandros.
Boy who accidentally shot woman during street argument gets 20 years
A Toledo teenager who accidentally shot his girlfriend to death while firing toward participants in a street dispute received an agreed-to 20-year prison sentence Monday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court. Nathan Mays, now 17, “brought a gun to a child’s fistfight and verbal argument,” Jennifer Worley, an assistant Lucas County prosecutor, told the court before remarking that while he didn’t intend to harm Jaelynn Poturalski, 18, on Sept. 3, 2023, “he intended to kill that day.” “He had bad intentions. I don’t have the answer to what to do about all these guns,” Judge Dean Mandros later said before pronouncing the sentence. “It’s beyond me. If I had a magic wand, I could take care of these guns. But I don’t have one.” Mays and his lawyer, Ann Baronas, had accepted Aug. 26 prosecutors’ offer to reduce a murder charge to involuntary manslaughter and reducing from first-degree to fourth-degree a count of firing on or near prohibited premises. The negotiated sentence included 11 to 16½ years for the manslaughter count, three years for the improper firing charge, and three-year gun specifications for both.