Sentencing for 17-year-old convicted of killing 15-year-old Cleveland girl

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A 17-year-old boy convicted of killing a 15-year-old Cleveland girl in 2022 was sentenced by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Cassandra Collier-Williams Thursday to 10 years in prison.

Steven Fisher pleaded guilty in April to the murder of Jaiden Rose Rentas.

Fisher pleaded guilty to reckless homicide, grand theft, gross abuse of a corpse, and possession of stolen property.

Rentas’s body was found inside a vehicle in the city’s Brooklyn Centre neighborhood in Oct. 28, 2022.

Cleveland police said they were called to a field in the 3700 block of W. 22nd Street around 2:30 p.m. for a suspicious vehicle.

When officers arrived, they said they found the vehicle running with the windshield wipers on. Rentas was pronounced dead at the scene of a gunshot wound.

During the sentencing, the court room was packed with friends and family of Rentas. Some holding signs as a memorial to for Rentas, others wearing yellow ribbons on their shirts.

Rentas’s mom, Jasmine Tores in tears describing how this murder has impacted her.

“She will never get married, she will never have children, she never got a chance at life,” says Tores.

Tores expressed that she would never forgive Fisher and that he was the biggest mistake of her daughters life.

“You stole the most beautiful soul from this earth and no earthly justice will ever amend that,” says Tores.

Fisher’s lawyer explaining to a judge that the murder was simply an accident.

“He loved her. He had no motive or interest in ever hurting that girl.”

However, the judge and Rentas’s family did not buy it.

“We believe Steven Fisher’s conduct is the most serious type of the offense of reckless homicide.”

“If it was an accident as he said then why flee and come back and move her and dump her in a field like she was a piece of trash instead of calling 9-1-1,” says Tores.

The full sentencing of Steven Fisher can be watched below:

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