Sentencing for driver guilty of ‘intentional’ deadly accident in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A 50-year-old man convicted of hitting and killing a man by running him over with his pick-up truck is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O’Donnell.

Last month, a jury found Marlon Hale guilty of aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, attempted felonious assault and menacing by stalking.

According to Cleveland police, Hale ran over his ex-girlfriend’s current boyfriend around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.

Marlon Hale((Source: Cuyahoga County Sheriff))

The woman told police her ex-boyfriend had assaulted her and then followed her to the BP Gas Station in he 500 block of E. 152nd Street.

Her current boyfriend went to the gas station to meet her and both men got into a physical fight, said police.

Hale then allegedly struck the victim with his truck, dragged him onto E. 152nd Street and ran him over, before fleeing the scene.

The victim, Irving Fincher, 49, of Cleveland Heights, died from his injuries.

The accident happened around 8:30 a.m. at E. 152nd and S. Waterloo Road.((Source: WOIO))

Hale was taken into custody by Middleburg Heights police on Nov. 10, 2022.