YOUNGSTOWN — Courtney L. Hall of Akron pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of tampering with evidence in the Feb. 29 shooting deaths of Sierra Morris and her father, Leroy Morris.

Hall, 30, is the girlfriend of John C. Bruner III, 31, who pleaded guilty Aug. 26 to murder, aggravated murder and other offenses and was sentenced to 41 years to life in prison.

Bruner killed Sierra, 25, the mother of his 5-year-old daughter, and Leroy, 58, in their West Judson Avenue home.

Sierra’s mother, Donna Morris, said Sierra and John had been arguing over child custody and other issues. Bruner, who had no previous criminal record, originally is from Warren.

Prosecutors say Hall drove Bruner to the Morris home, then drove him to their home in Akron afterward. She also moved or disposed of Bruner’s clothing and moved the gun and car.

Hall entered her guilty plea before Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who will sentence her at 9 a.m. Nov. 13. The hearing did not provide Hall with the opportunity to say anything about the case, only to enter her plea and agree to waive her right to a trial.

She participated in the hearing over video teleconferencing from the Mahoning County jail.

Her convictions are third-degree felonies punishable by up to three years in prison each, and prosecutors will recommend she gets six years in prison. Her attorney, Colin Meeker of Akron, will argue for less prison time.

Hall has asked that she be able to participate in person at her sentencing.

The judge ordered a presentence investigation of Hall’s background to assist him. The maximum Hall could get is nine years.

She had been charged March 17 in Youngstown Municipal Court with complicity to aggravated murder. Her case was bound over to a grand jury March 27, but she was never indicted.

Instead, she has remained in the Mahoning County jail since her March 17 arrest awaiting action by the grand jury, partly because COVID-19 caused grand jury proceedings to be halted for nearly two months.

Jennifer McLaughlin, assistant county prosecutor, told Durkin that Hall has cooperated with investigators, provided details of what took place before she drove Bruner to the Morris home and was prepared to testify at Bruner’s trial.

Prosecutors believe Hall’s cooperation impacted Bruner’s decision not to take the case to trial.

McLaughlin told Judge R. Scott Krichbaum at Bruner’s plea and sentencing hearing that after the killings, Bruner instructed Hall to “get rid of the clothing he was wearing.”

Bruner lied to police about where he was at the time of the killings, saying the GPS on the Brinks truck he drove for work would show where he was, but the GPS was turned off, McLaughlin said.

Bruner’s cellphone indicated he was in Youngstown.

Bruner also told Hall from jail to “hide the gun” that he used in the killings, McLaughlin said. Police later recovered the gun.

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