YOUNGSTOWN — Devin M. Nash, 32, was sentenced to 3 to 4 1/2 years in prison Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for an Oct. 25, 2024, assault at a home in the 3200 block of Ohio Avenue on Youngstown’s North Side.

Retired Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Andrew Logan handled the sentencing hearing on behalf of Judge Maureen Sweeney. Nash pleaded guilty earlier to one count of felonious assault. Nash got the sentence recommended by county prosecutors.

A Youngstown police report stated that Nash stabbed two people. The report states that officers arrived there for a 1:02 p.m. call to find a man and woman who had been stabbed outside of the home.

Both victims were taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. Nash had fled on foot and was located on Logan Avenue at Benita Avenue not far away and was arrested, the report states. Nash has been in the Mahoning County jail since Oct. 26, 2024, meaning he gets credit for about 500 days already served awaiting trial.

Nash was evaluated for competency to stand trial in early 2025. He was deemed not competent to stand trial, and Sweeney ordered that he be taken to Heartland Behavioral Healthcare, a state mental health hospital in Massillon, to be restored to competency if possible.

Sweeney ruled that Nash was competent to stand trial in October 2025.

Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Patrick Fening said the second felonious assault charge was for a person who tried to intervene in a fight involving Nash and the other person and was accidentally injured.

That person died while the case was pending, Fening said, and the felonious assault charge related to that person was dismissed in Nash’s plea agreement.