Repeat offender allegedly kills Ohio man just days after nonprofit pays his bail

An Ohio repetition offender was accused of sidesplitting idiosyncratic conscionable days aft a nonprofit paid his bail, which allowed him to beryllium released from jail.

Donnie Allen allegedly changeable and killed 27-year-old Benjamin McComas astatine a Cleveland airy obstruction presumption astir 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, according to Fox 8. Allen was charged with aggravated execution and arraigned connected a $1 cardinal bond.

Court records reviewed by Fox News Digital amusement Allen was charged with cause possession, breaking and entering, vandalism, obstructing authoritative concern and possessing transgression tools successful narration to a abstracted incidental astatine a Cleveland airy obstruction presumption connected Dec. 4.

His enslaved was initially acceptable astatine $15,000, which was aboriginal lowered by Judge Joy Kennedy to $5,000 connected Dec. 8. In that case, tribunal records amusement that The Bail Project, a nonprofit, provided the wealth for Allen to beryllium bonded retired of jail, and helium was released. The Bail Project paid $500 connected Dec. 9 for Allen to beryllium released from the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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Donnie Allen is accused of sidesplitting Benjamin McComas. (Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office)

Allen was arrested for the alleged execution of McComas conscionable 5 days aft being released from jail.

The execution fishy is simply a repetition offender who has antecedently either pleaded blameworthy oregon was convicted of the pursuing crimes:

- 2024: Two counts of attempted burglary, battle connected a bid officer, obstructing authoritative business, resisting apprehension and cause possession

- 2022: Burglary

- 2021: Burglary

- 2019: Two counts of burglary and 1 number of transgression damaging

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Allen's attorney, James Jenkins, told Fox News Digital that the Dec. 14 alleged execution was "far from" an intentional homicide.

Judge Joy Kennedy acceptable Allen's archetypal bond. (Cuyahoga County Courts)

In effect to a petition for comment, a spokesperson for The Bail Project told Fox News Digital: "The Bail Project condemns unit and we are profoundly acrophobic by the caller allegation involving Mr. Allen."

"Our ngo astatine The Bail Project is to guarantee that radical are not jailed pretrial solely due to the fact that they cannot spend bail. Our enactment exists to code inequities successful a strategy wherever wealthiness often determines who remains incarcerated earlier trial," the radical said. "Any nonaccomplishment of beingness is simply a tragedy, and we stay committed to gathering a fairer, much conscionable pretrial strategy that respects owed process, promotes safety, and avoids a misguided reliance connected currency bail."

The Bail Project didn't respond to a follow-up question asking if the enactment considered Allen's erstwhile arrests and convictions earlier fronting the wealth for him to beryllium released.

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Police said the alleged execution happened astatine a Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority station. (Google Maps)

In written answers to a questionnaire by The Marshall Project successful 2024, Kennedy said she felt bail betterment was necessary.

"Bail betterment is indispensable to code issues of inequities wrong the transgression justness system. I judge this is an ever-evolving substance that indispensable perpetually beryllium addressed to beforehand adjacent entree to justness and forestall unnecessary pretrial detention," she said.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Cuyahoga County Court for comment.