CLEVELAND, Ohio — A man was sentenced to life in prison plus three years for fatally stabbing a mother in front of her five children outside a home on Cleveland’s West Side.
A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury found Charles Barkley, 48, of Cleveland guilty last month of two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault and one count of domestic violence.
Barkley, whom the court found to be a repeat violent offender, was sentenced Thursday for the killing of Sharmaine Forpahl, 32, of Maple Heights. Forpahl was attacked on the night of July 10, 2025 around West 57th Street and Memphis Avenue in the presence of her children, ages 7 to 16…