COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A man who pleaded guilty in the carjacking death of a Canal Winchester educator received his sentence Thursday morning.
Gerald Dowling Jr., who nearly a month ago pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 29-year-old Alexa Stakely, was sentenced to a minimum of seven years in prison.
That sentence, which could exceed 10 years, accounts for 380 days of jail-time credit, making it effectively a six-year sentence, with an unspecified judicial release date to be released in court documents. The sentence also includes a mandatory community control period of two-to-five years.
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Dowling turned himself in after being implicated in the death of Stakely, who found at 1:30 a.m. on July 11, lying near the intersection of Blue Knoll Drive and Annual Drive, just north of Canal Winchester. Stakely was attempting to stop a carjacking in the southeast Columbus neighborhood of White Ash, where three suspects had entered her vehicle, which was parked at the White Oak Park Condominiums…