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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Sinclair student’s shooting death leads to guilty plea for Trotwood man
DAYTON — A man charged in the January 2009 shooting death of a Sinclair Community College student will serve nine years in prison, under a plea agreement reached Wednesday, June 16.
Deon L. Pinson, 33, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery. Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor Sandra Hobson read the plea agreement reached with defense attorneys into the record, and common pleas Judge Frances E. McGee set sentencing for July 6.
Pinson was indicted in December on four counts of murder counts, two counts of felonious assault and two counts of aggravated robbery. All charges were in connection with the Jan. 23, 2009 shooting death of Demetrius Frazier.
Pinson was to go on trial on those charges Wednesday before the plea agreement was reached.
Frazier, 24, was shot multiple times near the intersection of Otterbein Avenue and Layton Drive. He knocked on doors asking for help, but collapsed and died on the front lawn of a home near the shooting, police said.
Pinson and Frazier were friends, police said, and the robbery might have been set up by Pinson. Frazier was an engineering student at Sinclair Community College who was planning to transfer to the University of Dayton, his father Murphy Frazier told the Dayton Daily News in January.
Pinson turned himself in to police on Dec. 16 after learning that police had obtained an arrest warrant for him.
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