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A Summit County jury has found an Akron man guilty in a stabbing death outside of Chapel Hill Mall.

Deandre Baskerville was found guilty of two murder counts, along with felonious assault, in the death of Terrence Rogers in August 2015.

Baskerville and Rogers got into an argument. That fight moved outside where Baskerville stabbed Rogers...who eventually collapsed and died in front of a mall store.

Baskerville was captured a month later by U.S. Marshals on a bus in West Virginia.

Baskerville will be sentenced on February 16th.

(Summit County Prosecutor's Office, news release) Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh announced today that a Summit County jury found Deandre Baskerville, 29, of Mineola Street in Akron, guilty of stabbing Terrance Rogers to death outside Akron's Chapel Hill Mall.

Jurors found Baskerville guilty of the following charges:

2 counts of Murder – special felonies
Felonious Assault – a felony of the 2nd degree
Carrying a Concealed Weapon – a misdemeanor of the 1st degree

On August 19, 2015, 35-year-old Terrance Rogers was shopping at Chapel Hill Mall with his fiancé and their two children. Rogers and Baskerville got into an argument inside the mall. The two men continued arguing outside where Baskerville stabbed Rogers in the neck. Rogers stumbled back inside the mall where he eventually died. Baskerville escaped, and was captured by U.S. Marshals on September 23, 2015 in West Virginia.

Baskerville is scheduled to be sentenced on February 16, 2016 at 9am.

Jeffrey Conrad has been found guilty of all counts against him in the murder of Amanda Russell, his former girlfriend, in Cuyahoga Falls.

A Summit County Common Pleas Court jury returned guilty verdicts Monday against Conrad on two aggravated murder counts, one murder count, and other counts including felonious assault, violating a protection order and domestic violence.

Russell was found stabbed to death by her teenage daughter outside her home on 8th Street in August 2014. Russell had taken out a protection order against Conrad in 2012.

It didn't take long to find Conrad, once his arrest was imminent. He'd been in police custody, charged with assaulting a park ranger in Cleveland.

The Summit County Prosecutor's Office says Conrad was not in court Monday when the verdict was read. 

His sentencing date is still pending.