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YOUNGSTOWN -- John C. Bruner III, 30, pleaded guilty this morning to killing Sierra Morris, 25, and Sierra’s father, Leroy Morris, 58, on Feb. 29. Sierra Morris was the mother of Bruner’s 5-year-old daughter.
Bruner first confronted Leroy Morris at the door of the Morris’ home on West Judson Avenue, then shot Sierra Morris 20 times, prosecutors said.
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum sentenced him to 41 years to life. Bruner pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in Sierra Morris’s death and murder in Leroy Morris’s death. Bruner was living in Akron at the time of the murders but was originally from Warren.