Woman pleads guilty this week for death of boyfriend run over by a car

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Sentencing will be Sept. 16 for a woman who pleaded guilty this week to charges she ran her boyfriend over with a car, killing him.

Shanay Jacobs, 32, pleaded guilty Wednesday before Judge John Durkin in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter for the Oct. 15 death of Nathaniel Watson , 30.

Watson was found by police at about 4:15 a.m. underneath a car in a yard in the 200 block of South Schenley Avenue.

Jacobs was originally charged with voluntary manslaughter and felonious assault but the charge was later upgraded to murder after police said they found video footage that they said showed Jacobs purposely ran Watson over.

The charge was reduced to voluntary manslaughter Wednesday in exchange for Jacobs’ plea.

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