18 January 2010 :

Two witnesses who testified against Mark Brown in his 1994 death penalty trial say they lied to win favor with prosecutors. The witnesses told Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court they gave false information regarding a double slaying allegedly committed by Mark Brown, scheduled to be put to death on Feb. 4. Myzelle Arrington, who was 15 at the time, says he lied in hopes of getting help with his own legal troubles. Marcus Clark, 13 at the time, says Brown only shot the owner of a convenience store and that a second person shot a clerk also killed that night. The testimony is significant because Brown was sentenced to death for killing two or more people at the same time. Brown, 37, black, was sentenced to die for the 1994 killing of Isam Salman, owner of a market. Brown also received a life sentence for the fatal shooting of the store clerk, Hayder Al-Turk, during the same robbery. Brown confessed to killing both men.