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YOUNGSTOWN Brian Donlow Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing Christopher Jackson Jr. on Nov. 18, 2018, in a car at the corner of Bennington and Stewart avenues on the East Side.
Donlow, 26, of Detroit Avenue, already was serving a sentence of 21 years to life after being convicted last year of another 2018 East Side murder the shooting death of Brandon Wylie, 30, on June 18, 2018.
Judge Anthony D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court ordered Donlow’s new sentence be served in addition to his earlier one. The judge handed down both sentences and oversaw both trials.
May 11, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN – Brian Donlow Jr. of Youngstown, 26, who was convicted at trial last month, received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole Tuesday for killing Christopher Jackson Jr., 21, of Warren Nov. 18, 2018.
That sentence is in addition to the 21-years-to-life in prison he received in February 2020, also in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, for killing Brandon Wylie, 30, June 18, 2018, five months before the Jackson killing.
Both killings took place on Youngstown’s East Side.
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Apr 28, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN –Judge Anthony D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court today found Brian Donlow Jr. guilty on all counts after a two-day trial in which Donlow served as his own lawyer.
Donlow listened calmly to the verdicts and was later led from the courtroom without incident. He will be sentenced later.
Donlow, 26, and two other men were charged with aggravated murder and other offenses in the Nov. 18, 2018, shooting death of Christopher Jackson Jr., 21, of Warren. Jackson was found dead in a car at the corner of Bennington and Stewart avenues on the East Side.
Donlow also was convicted of the attempted murder of Carlos Davis of Warren, a second man in the car.
YOUNGSTOWN Before Judge Anthony D’Apolito announced Wednesday that he had found Brian Donlow Jr. guilty of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and felonious assault in the killing of Christopher Jackson Jr. and wounding of Carlos Davis, he summarized the evidence he heard.
D’Apolito focused on evidence showing three different calibers of weapon fired bullets into Jackson’s body and that a key found in the car where Jackson, 21, and Davis, 24, were shot opened the door at a house in Youngstown associated with Donlow and co-defendant Stephon Hopkins.
He also mentioned Facebook Messenger messages Youngstown Police Detective Michael Lambert obtained were written by Jackson and testimony from Lambert indicating that Davis had identified Donlow, 26, as one of the three men who entered the back seat of the car just before gunfire came from the back seat and into Jackson and Davis.