Prosecutors will seek a six -year prison term in the fatal beating

Personal photo / Ed Runyan James Stehura, 50, from Wedgewood Drive in Austintown, on the left, declared himself guilty on Monday of the charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and not stopped after an accident in the accident of the Hits proposal From March 11 who killed Linda Adams, 66, as she walked through Lancaster Drive in Austintown. On the right is Stehura’s lawyer, Sam amends.

Jungows – Prosecutors will ask James A. Stehura from Wedgewood Drive in Austintown, getting six years in prison for hitting Linda Adams with his truck in Lancaster Drive in Austintown on March 11 and leaving the scene.

Stehura, 50, declared himself guilty on aggravated vehicular homicide Monday and not stop after an accident before Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, Anthony Donofrio, and will be sentenced at 9 am on March 14. His two crimes are serious crimes of third grade.

Stehura and his lawyer may argue for less prison time because the six years are not an agreed recommendation by the Prosecutor’s Office and the defense, authorities said.

Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Marty Hume said prosecutors will ask Stehura to obtain a 10 -year driver’s license suspension, and prosecutors will oppose Stehura to be released from early prison in judicial liberation.

Stehura was arrested on April 3, 2024, and was then accused of aggravated vehicle homicide charges, reckless homicide, lack of detention after an accident and evidence manipulation. The reckless homicide and the manipulation of evidence were dismissed in exchange for Stehura’s guilt statements to the other positions. The accident was reported at 7:45 pm

A Austhyntown police report states that the dispatators told officers that a white truck hit Adams, 66, and fled south in Lancaster. Adams was found insensitive in the patio of 1706 Lancaster. She lived nearby.

The report says that Adams was beaten while walking with his partner. Police learned during his investigation that Stehura had consumed at least nine drinks for a period of four hours in a local bar located two minutes from the scene.

Police obtained a video from Stehura at the bar and from him leaving the bar and entering his truck, according to the reports.

The police also obtained a video of the truck bell camera that hit Adams and published a photo of the vehicle on the Facebook page of the department. A Social Network Council took them to Stehura’s house that night, but neither he nor the truck were there.

The next morning, an employee of the Stehura tree cutting business called the police to say that Stehura’s truck was parked in the business garage with frontal damage that coincide with what the police described in the Facebook publication.

Later that day, Stehura’s lawyer called the police to tell them that Stehura was willing to talk to the officers and let them confiscate the truck.