WARREN — A Youngstown man accused of shooting a woman to death Dec. 16, 2021, in a vehicle off a Hubbard Township road has been ruled competent to stand trial in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Devonte Douglas, 25, 1471 Dogwood Lane, appeared in court Wednesday with public defender Carlo Ciccone after Judge W. Wyatt McKay in a journal entry on April 13 found him competent. The judge received a report from court-appointed psychologists who interviewed the defendant.

At the hearing, McKay had to convince Douglas that his court-appointed attorney was competent to defend him. The judge mentioned the defendant had written him a letter complaining that he had been in jail for 131 days and had only seen his attorney twice.

McKay explained that the attorney really had nothing to talk about with him during the competency evaluation process, which took at least 60 days. McKay assured Douglas that he would be seeing more of Ciccone in preparation for trial.

“I want to be sure to be treated fairly since I’ve never been in this much trouble before,” Douglas told the judge.

After a short discussion, Douglas agreed to allow his speedy trial rights to be waived for 180 days so a trial could fit into the court docket. Both Ciccone and assistant Prosecutor Christopher Becker agreed the trial should start Oct. 24.

Incarcerated defendants in Ohio must be tried within 90 days of arrest.

Douglas was arrested on Dec. 16, 2021, and was indicted in a special report of a Trumbull County grand jury charging him with aggravated murder, kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the death of Adreionna Faith Hasley-Crockett, 22, 1324 Dogwood Lane, Youngstown. Some of his speedy trial time was waived during the competency process.

If found guilty, Douglas could face a life sentence with chances at parole after either 20, 25 or 30 years. Becker said an option for a maximum sentence of life without parole is possible.

Hasley-Crockett’s body earlier that December day was found in a vehicle parked in a pull-off near Seifert Lewis Road in Hubbard Township. A terrified woman told Trumbull County 911 dispatchers that her ex-boyfriend held a gun to her head and forced her into the trunk of a vehicle before killing the woman’s girlfriend, according to 911 recordings.

Hasley-Crockett died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to a coroner’s report.

Douglas showed up at the Youngstown Police Department shortly after the shooting in an attempt to get a car out of impound. Douglas was detained for questioning, according to a report.

The case was investigated by Hubbard Township police and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.