WARREN, Ohio -- A man who fled northeast Ohio nearly three decades ago after a deadly stabbing and was found living under an assumed identity in Arizona last December has pleaded guilty in the killing.
Ronald Stahlman entered the plea Wednesday to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in the April 1979 death of 18-year-old Bernard Williamson in Warren.
Authorities have said the 56-year-old Stahlman was a member of the Outlaws motorcycle gang at the time of the stabbing, which took place just after a traffic accident.
The plea headed off further testimony in a first-degree murder trial that began Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. Judge Andrew Logan sentenced Stahlman to a sentence of between one year and ten years in prison.
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