Trial Begins Against Man Charged With 2011 Murder of Kim Slayko
Chad Allen Stephens is accused of killing Slayko, 33, of Cuyahoga Falls, last August in Akron.
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Chad Allen Stephens, who’s accused of murdering Kim Slayko II in 2011, went on trial Monday afternoon in Summit County Common Pleas Court.
Opening statements were delivered by the defense and prosecution and the first witness took the stand and was examined and cross-examined, reports the Falls News Press.
The trial will resume Tuesday morning at 8:30 a.m.
Stephens was found last September in the 3200 block of West Market Street in Fairlawn. Akron police, the U.S. Marshals Office Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force and Fairlawn police assisted in the arrest.
Stephens, who was 22 at the time, was charged with murder with a firearm, a special felony; aggravated robbery with a firearm, a first-degree felony; and having weapons while under disability, a third-degree felony, according to court documents.
On August 31, 2011, Slayko was discovered in the backyard of a house in the 900 block of Baughman Street in Akron with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Slayko, a U.S. Army war veteran who served in Afghanistan and returned home to Cuyahoga Falls, was pronounced dead at age 33.
