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Man pleads guilty, sentenced in 2021 homicide of 11-year-old Nathan Sumner

Marquise Figures was named as an additional suspect in the case in April 2023.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Three years after 11-year-old Nathan Sumner was fatally shot while playing basketball with his brother outside their north Toledo home, the second defendant charged in the incident has pleaded guilty and was sentenced. 

Court documents state 18-year-old Marquise Figures withdrew his previous plea of not guilty and then pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and attempt to commit murder. A Lucas County Judge sentenced Figures on Tuesday - exactly three years after Sumner was shot - to 20 to 24 years in prison. 

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Figures, who was 15 at the time of the incident, was accused of shooting and killing Sumner in August 2021. Both Sumner and his 14-year-old brother were shot in the head. 

The boys were taken to the hospital and Nathan died two days later. According to court documents, Sumner's brother has permanent brain injuries from the shooting.

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Toledo police named Figures as a suspect in April 2023, when he was 17. He then turned himself in. He was accused alongside 20-year-old Tyler Williams in the case. A grand jury indicted Williams on Dec. 21, 2021, for murder, attempted murder, felonious assault and discharge of a firearm near prohibited premises. 

Williams accepted a plea deal in February. He withdrew his previous plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to felonious assault with firearm, and was sentenced in March to 10-13.5 years in prison.

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