LISBON — Deliberations in the Jeno L. Wall aggravated murder trial won’t get started until Monday morning.

That was the decision of the eight women and four men on the jury when Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton handed them the case at 4:58 p.m. Friday, giving them the option of starting then or waiting until Monday.

After being there all day, they opted for Monday.

Wall, 35, whose last known address was listed as Steubenville, was charged earlier this year with unclassified felonies of aggravated murder and murder and third-degree felony intimidation of an attorney, victim or witness in a criminal case, along with firearm specifications, for shooting 30-year-old Robert E. “Hubba” Herron on Sept. 9, 2024 in Wellsville, resulting in his death.

Wall could face a possible sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of the aggravated murder charge, plus additional time for the firearm specifications and the intimidation charge.

“The only person who shot Robert Herron on Sept. 9, 2024 was this defendant,” county Assistant Prosecutor Tammie Riley Jones said during closing arguments.

She also said he was the only person who lied about being at the shooting scene that night and he was the only one who threatened people out of all the witnesses who testified. When Wellsville Police arrived after getting a report of shots fired on 10th Street, they found no one at the scene initially, then found the victim. They later spoke to two different eyewitnesses, James “Jimmy” Howell and Brandon Kessler, who put themselves at the scene and both said the same: that Wall, also known as Mally, hit Hubba and shot him.

“Those witnesses never wavered on the identify of this defendant as the person who shot Robert Herron,” she said.

When Kessler said the black man he later learned was Jeno Wall made Hubba get on knees, hit him with the gun and shot him, that’s consistent with the findings of the autopsy, that he was shot in the back and the bullet trajectory went down through the body. She told jurors to look at the defendant’s story then look at the other testimony and the evidence from videos and text messages. The evidence corroborates what the other witnesses said, not what the defendant said regarding his whereabouts that night. The timing doesn’t match the videos showing the travels of Joseph Savin’s truck.

She showed jurors a zoomed in photo of inside the truck when parked next to the pumps at Rich Oil, showing a person wearing a white hoodie in the front passenger seat. During his testimony, Wall claimed that he and Tiffany Sattler switched seats and he was in the back, but witnesses described him wearing a white, light-colored hoodie before and after the murder.

He also claimed that Tiffany had his phone and must have sent the messages to the victim that were claimed to be from him. Does that make sense? she asked. Jones said that was the defendant trying to hide from the evidence.

She advised jurors not to be led astray.

“My back hurts, I can’t breathe, we was just playing,” defense attorney Charley Kidder said were the last words of Hubba as told by Wellsville Patrolman Jeff Weekley, who found him. He said the statement “we was just playing” did not make sense.

He also questioned the actions of Howell, saying several times to the jurors, “Jimmy Howell was lying to you.”

He had testified that he was scared, but instead of going into his house and locking the door or checking on his friend, he fled to his sister’s house and hid under his nephew’s bed. He said he had a gun, a .380, and left it at his sister’s but she said absolutely not, Kidder said.

Kidder then said several times that the other eyewitness, Kessler, lied to jurors. He said he ran to his house, but then people came over, he claimed Wall and Savin, and that Wall told him to get rid of the gun. If he was so scared, why didn’t he lock his door? When police came and knocked, why didn’t he answer so they could help him? And then there was a comment that Joey (Savin) and Tiffany put all this together.

“You were lied to a lot,” Kidder said.

He said they can’t go off of the testimony they heard from the witnesses. Then he talked about the evidence, saying the videos didn’t show much and he’s supposed to believe that white dot was his client? He talked about the bullet evidence and casing, which were from a 9mm, but there was no DNA tested and no gunshot residue testing or fingerprints, all which were offered by his client.

Kidder talked about Wall and admitted “he got a little upset at times on the stand.” He said if he was charged with murder, he would get pretty upset, too, and he would yell.

“He said very clearly that he did not do this,” Kidder said, referring to the murder.

County Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Weeda started off the closing arguments, which the prosecution gets to do twice since they have the burden of proof. He went through each of the elements of the charges, such as the date, Sept. 9, 2024 and the fact that it happened in Wellsville, which is in Columbiana County.

He talked about Jeno Wall and how other witnesses put him at the scene and said he shot Hubba. He’s the only one who said he didn’t shoot him. He’s the only one who denied even being there. Witnesses said he went to Jimmy Howell’s property at least three times looking for Hubba. As soon as he got out of Savin’s truck on 10th Street, Savin said he went to Jimmy’s. Then he went a second time and went inside the house looking for Hubba. The third time, he went with Kessler and Jeno found Hubba and shot him. Kessler said so every time he had an interview and when he testified. Yes, he did not admit to getting rid of the gun at first, but he always said who shot Hubba.

Weeda said the videos from various locations tell the story.

“They corroborate the stories of everybody except one person, this defendant,” he said.

He said the fact that Wall went looking for Hubba at Jimmy’s three times shows he had purpose. He had a mental plan when he pulled that gun out and shot Hubba. Hubba’s not going to walk through the door because the gunshot wound to his back killed him. He said the elements of murder were proven and the elements of a firearm specification were proven and the elements of intimidation were there.

After the shooting, Jimmy Howell said Wall told him, “you didn’t see anything.”

Then he came up to him a second time when he had his dog and said, “you say anything, you’ll be next.”

The video camera showed someone a white hoodie come up to a person with a dog. Weeda asked why Jimmy would make that up.

Weeda repeated the last words of Hubba, and said he was “an unarmed man shot in the back by this defendant, Jeno Wall, Mally.”

“There’s only one verdict that makes sense in this case,” he said.