Boardman man pleads guilty to strangulation
YOUNGSTOWN — Larnell Hall, 41, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of strangulation and one count of felony domestic violence for incidents June 26 in which he strangled a woman at Hall’s home in Boardman.
He also pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in a separate Dec. 9, 2023, case.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney will sentence Hall at 11 a. m. Monday in both cases, and Hall could get several years in prison. He was scheduled for trial Monday before he entered his guilty pleas Wednesday, avoiding the trial.
A second-degree felony charge of strangulation was dismissed in exchange for Hall’s guilty pleas on the other two charges. The indictment in Hall’s weapons charge listed him as having an address on East Midlothian Boulevard in Youngstown, but his strangulation and domestic violence indictment listed Hall’s address being on Aravesta Avenue in Boardman.
A Boardman police report stated that the woman and Hall argued June 26, 2024, over her watching a child of Hall’s who was visiting. The argument ended, but at about 1:30 p.m., Hall asked her “What’s your issue?” She said she did not have an issue, but Hall yelled at her and grabbed her neck and choked her while she lay in bed, the report states.
He did this multiple times, strangling her for a couple of seconds and then stopping but then repeating it about five times, the report states.
The woman said she begged Hall to stop, “as she was unable to breathe,” and tried to get away, but Hall “threw her back on the bed,” she said. An officer documented that the woman had red marks on her neck, the report states. Eventually Hall left in a car, the woman said.
Boardman police took custody of Hall at the Lyndhurst Police Department in the Cleveland area June 29 after Lyndhurst police arrested Hall on a warrant in the strangulation case. Hall was later taken to the Mahoning County jail, where he has been housed since June 29, according to Mahoning County jail records.
Hall’s indictment in the strangling and domestic violence case states that the domestic violence charge takes into account that Hall was previously convicted of domestic violence in Youngstown Municipal Court in 2009.
No information was available on the weapons offense other than Hall’s indictment, which stated that he was not allowed to possess a firearm Dec. 9, 2023, because he was convicted on or about Dec. 15, 2005, in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court of felonious assault.