Staff file photo / Ed Runyan John E. Morgan, 47, of Campbell stands up and is handcuffed after the first guilty verdict is read in his murder trial. His attorneys, from left, Brandon Henderson and Justin Weatherly, are seen seated in front of him. He was found guilty in the killing of Daniel Peek Sr. in Youngstown in 2022. Morgan was sentenced to 18 years to life today.

YOUNGSTOWN — John E. Morgan was sentenced today to 18 years to life in prison for fatally shooting Daniel Peek Sr., 46, outside of Peek’s home on East Florida Avenue on Youngstown’s South Side July 31, 2022.

Morgan, 47, of Campbell, was convicted of murder, a gun specification and felonious assault at his trial in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in late February. Morgan was found unresponsive in a cell in the Mahoning County jail about three hours after learning that he had been found guilty.

Authorities said he had apparently suffered a drug overdose. Deputies administered multiple doses of the opiate reversal drug Naloxone to Morgan, and he was revived, Sheriff Jerry Greene said.