Parole board decides not to release defendant convicted in 1993 murder
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The Ohio Parole Board denied parole for a man serving 18-years-to-life for shooting and killing a 16-year-old in 1993.
A jury convicted Derek Carter of shooting death of Nick Carter over 30 years ago.
The defendant was sentenced to between 18 years to life in jail.
The parole board voted 5-4, favoring the state’s case keeping Derek Carter behind bars and denying him parole.
Criminal chief Ralph Rivera represented Mahoning County’s case against Derek Carter’s release today before the Parole Board in Columbus.
Several members of Nick Carter’s family also spoke at the hearing, including his mother, sister and brother.
Convicted of shooting into crowd, hitting 16-year-old Nick Carter
Derek Carter was convicted of shooting and killing Nick Carter after a football game in the parking lot across from Youngstown State University’s Stambaugh Stadium, according to Mahoning County prosecutors.
It happened in the McDonald’s parking lot before 8 p.m. after a game between East High School and Wilson High School on Oct. 22, 1993.
An altercation broke out between the two groups.
According to the prosecutor’s office, during the fight, Derek Carter left the lot and came back with a .22 caliber semiautomatic gun.
He fired three shots into the crowd of the two groups and Nick Carter sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the chest.
A second person was “shot and seriously injured” but survived the shooting outside Stambaugh Stadium.
A campus police officer and a uniformed security guard “quickly” arrested Derek Carter, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Police said the defendant later admitted to using his friend’s gun and firing into the crowd in the parking lot. He’d left the parking lot to get the gun from his friend’s car.
The parole board said Derek Carter’s rehabilitative efforts since the shooting couldn’t overshadow the “aggravating facts and circumstances that surrounded Nick Carter’s murder.”
