CANTON ‒ A man who fatally shot his mother’s fiancé after the couple argued inside their northeast Canton home was found guilty Friday of involuntary manslaughter.
A Stark County Common Pleas Court jury also declared Savier D. Smiley , 19, guilty of aggravated assault and having weapons under disability in connection with the Oct. 20 shooting death of Dontae T. Crayton . The jury found he used a gun in each of the crimes, a specification that will require a three-year prison sentence to be served prior to any time ordered on the other offenses.
The jury found Smiley not guilty of murder and felonious assault.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.
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Savier Smiley was barred from having gun
The shooting occurred when Smiley was 18 years old and prohibited from having a gun because he was convicted in 2020 of a juvenile burglary charge, a crime that would have been a felony if he had been an adult at the time.