Suspect admits to killing
By CHRISTOPHER BOBBY Tribune Chronicle
Special to the Tribune Chronicle Jameila West and Jason T. Howard sit at a picnic table during happier times in this undated photo supplied by her family. West and her children were found dead Wednesday in Columbus and police there call Howard their only suspect.
WARREN — With a defiant, pouting look on his face and his tattooed arms shackled at his waist, murder suspect Jason Howard threw the indictment sheets against him to the courtroom floor.
‘‘I’m guilty of all this!’’ Howard blurted out.
But the 24-year-old Warren man denied involvement with the quadruple killing in Columbus of his former girlfriend and her three children. Columbus police call him their only suspect.
‘‘My kids are dead! Find out who did that,’’ Howard told Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge John M. Stuard.
When Stuard advised Howard to not speak and to cooperate with his attorney, Anthony Consoldane, Howard shot back with ‘‘I don’t care!’’
The six-count indictment in three Warren shootings in the past week, one of them fatal, included charges of aggravated murder and attempted murder. County Assistant Prosecutor Chris Becker referred to it as a ‘‘three-day crime spree’’ after telling news reporters ‘‘I don’t really care what his (Howard’s) attitude is like.’’
Stuard officially considered Howard’s appearance to include an innocent plea and he set a pretrial hearing for late Thursday morning.
The judge set bond at $2 million, while surviving family members of Philip A. Dally’s cried inside the courtroom and in the hallway before quickly leaving the courthouse.
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