An Austintown man is expected to enter a plea in connection with a hit skip crash that killed a woman back in March of 2024.

According to court records, 50-year-old James Stehura was scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing Tuesday morning. A plea hearing has since been scheduled for Monday, February 24.

As it stands, Stehura is facing charges of aggravated vehicular homicide, reckless homicide, failure to stop after an accident and tampering with evidence. It is unknown if any of these charges will be amended or dropped following the potential plea.

The charges stem from a hit skip crash that claimed the life of 66-year-old Linda Adams, who was walking her dog with her wife on Lancaster Drive when a pickup truck hit her and drove away without stopping. Adams died of her injuries soon after the crash.

Police believe Stehura to be the driver of that truck noting that his truck is the only one in the area that matched the description of a truck in a video captured on a Ring doorbell camera.

21 News will update this story following the February 24 plea hearing. In the meantime, you can read much more about the hit skip and Stehura's alleged involvement in our related coverage below.

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