Jeremy Butcher, 29, was fatally shot in the head on February 10, 2022, while sitting in a vehicle in the 1000 block of Yukon Avenue in Akron, Ohio, a residential area just south of Copley Road by Interstate 76. He was pronounced dead at the scene; a second man, 37, was injured and survived.
Authorities identified 36-year-old Keith Soto of Brook Park as a person of interest and arrested him in Cleveland on March 11, 2022, after investigators say evidence linked him to the shooting. Soto was charged with aggravated murder, felonious assault, and having weapons under disability and held in Summit County Jail. At trial on February 10, 2023, jurors convicted Soto of two counts of felonious assault, one count of tampering with evidence, and two counts of weapons under disability, and acquitted him of one count of aggravated murder, a second count of murder, and one count of aggravated robbery. Soto claimed self-defense at trial; the jury rejected that defense. Sentencing was scheduled for February 27, 2023.
Did anyone in the neighborhood see the vehicle on Yukon Avenue that night or notice anything unusual around Interstate 76?