37-year-old Ohio prison inmate convicted in mistaken identity murder dies

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A 37-year-old Ohio inmate serving time for the 2010 mistaken identification homicide of an aged man in Youngstown has died.

Kevin Agee, an inmate at Lake Erie Correctional Establishment in Ashtabula County, died at College Hospitals Cleveland Medical Middle on Jan. 4, based on the Ohio Division of Rehabilitation & Correction and Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Workplace information.

His explanation for demise has not been launched.

Agee, 37, was convicted in a 2010 drive-by capturing that claimed the lifetime of Thomas Repchic and injured his spouse, 74-year-old Jacqueline Repchic.

Court docket information present Agee was behind the wheel when his passenger, Aubrey Toney, opened fireplace on the couple’s burgundy 1990 Cadillac DeVille.

The Repchics had simply pushed away from St. Dominic’s Church, the place Jacqueline labored as a secretary, when Toney fired seven photographs into their automobile.

In accordance with court docket information, one shot went by way of the passenger door and “took off Mrs. Repchic’s proper foot.”

Her left foot was additionally injured by bullet fragments.

One other shot went by way of the again of the driving force’s seat and killed Mr. Repchic by coming into his lung, court docket information present.

Prosecutors stated the capturing was a case of mistaken identification and that Toney believed the automobile he shot into belonged to his “neighborhood rival.”

In 2012, Agee was discovered responsible of homicide, tried homicide, and felonious assault. He was sentenced to 31 years to life in jail.

Toney is at present serving 29 years to life at NorthEast Ohio Correctional Middle in Youngstown, based on ODRC information.

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