Judge postpones sentencing for suspect in Urbana University incident

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“The court desires to delay sentencing until the prosecution of the co-defendants is more fully developed, so as to ensure that the defendant’s sentence is commiserate with his conduct and consistent with those of his co-defendants found guilty of similar offenses,” Selvaggio’s journal entry states.

Donnan was among five indicted in the incident that court documents say was a drug deal in a dorm that turned violent and spurred a campus-wide alert.

Others indicted in connection to the incident are Ryon Lucas, 21, of Trotwood and Dioro Geroski Jr., 22, , address unknown, on aggravated robbery charges and Brandon Craft, 18, of New Carlisle and Ryan Rowland, 20, of Medway on marijuana trafficking charges.

All five were indicted in Champaign County Common Pleas Court and cases are currently making their way through the court system.

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According to a statement of facts filed in Champaign County Municipal Court, three men went to Sycamore Hall, a dorm on Urbana’s campus, on Nov. 6 to sell someone 200 grams of marijuana.

The court document states the buyer had intentions of stealing the drugs from the sellers.

Two men went inside Sycamore Hall, while one of the men waited outside. A friend of the buyer was also in the room when the attempted drug deal happened and struck both of the alleged sellers in the head with his gun.

One of the alleged sellers also had a gun on him, and when he was hit, he dropped his own gun — which discharged, although no one was shot. The court document states at that point, all five of the men ran away from the dorm and the Urbana University campus. Urbana University sent out an alert to the campus community saying shots had been fired and to avoid the campus area.

When investigators went into the dorm room, they say they found spots of blood, a gun, a piece of copper jacketing from a fired round of ammunition and marijuana, among other evidence.