YOUNGSTOWN — Nichole R. Taylor, 41, of Alliance, who at one time was a premed student at Kent State University, pleaded guilty Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to aggravated burglary and two counts of attempted murder and three gun specifications, and could get about 15 years in prison.

She will be sentenced 9:30 a.m. Dec. 28 before Judge Anthony Donofrio.

She was scheduled for trial Monday morning, but her plea eliminated the need for the trial.

The charges relate to a Sept. 19, 2019, incident at a home on Wayside Drive on Youngstown’s South Side in which two people were shot multiple times and the house was set on fire. Also charged in the case is Robert P. Young IV, 49, who faces similar charges as Taylor.

Prosecutors are recommending that Taylor get 15 to 19 1/2 years in prison. The defense will argue for less prison time.

Lynn Maro, Taylor’s attorney, said Taylor has no previous criminal record, and the incident was captured on home surveillance video from the outside of the home.

Maro said Taylor did not have a weapon, but the video showed Young “coming and going with a weapon.” Maro contends that Taylor had gone to the home to speak with a homeowner, “didn’t realize what Mr. Young was going to be doing, accepts her part for being there, knocking on the door. Mr. Young then comes around the corner and barges in.”

Maro said her client “didn’t take an opportunity to walk away when she could have and should have, and under the complicity law is equally responsible for what occurred that day.”

She added that Taylor has two children. She is free on a $30,000 bond.

Young was scheduled for trial in June, but he did not appear and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He remains at large.

Young was convicted of second-degree murder in August 1993 in Wayne County, Mich., and was sentenced to 18 to 30 years in prison, according to online Michigan court records and details of Young’s indictment.

Police were called to the home in the 3400 block of Wayside at 10:42 p.m. Sept. 19, 2019, for two people being shot and the house being on fire. When police arrived, they were approached by the two victims — a man, 33, and woman, 27, according to a Youngstown police report.

The victims were taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where they first were listed in stable but changed to critical condition later.

Young and Taylor turned themselves in to police in early February 2020 on warrants for two felonious assault charges filed in Youngstown Municipal Court on Sept. 20, 2019.

A Detroit television station reported Jan. 30, 2020, that the U.S. Marshals Service was carrying out a multi-state manhunt for Young, who is from the Detroit area and had served 18 years in prison for the Detroit-area murder.

At the time, Deputy U.S. Marshal Aaron Garcia told TV station WXYZ of Detroit that Taylor knocked on the door of the Youngstown home. When a woman answered, Young shot her, then the two robbed the male and female inside, and Young shot the second person in the home, Garcia said.