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YOUNGSTOWN -- Nicholas Cunningham, 31, of Alliance was indicted Thursday on charges of aggravated murder, murder, aggravated burglary and violating a protection order in the Oct. 26 killing of Gena M. Wade, 44, in her Smith Township home.
Cunningham, of Wilcox Street, is being held in the Mahoning County jail in lieu of $500,000 bond.
The details of the killing have not been provided, but prosectors say a protection order against Cunningham requested by Wade in March connects Cunningham to Wade.
Wade received a civil stalking protection order against Cunningham March 31 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after she requested the order. She alleged that Cunningham was "targeting my 12-year-old niece, and he is a convicted sex offender." She alleged that Cunningham had threatened her and her mother "almost every day"on his Facebook page.
According to the Ohio sex offender database, Cunningham is a Tier 2 sex offender. Court records indicate that he is a sex offender because he was convicted in November 2015 of sexual battery with a sexual motivation in Stark County Common Pleas Court. He was convicted at the same time of gross sexual imposition of a victim under age 13 with sexual motivation.