A Summit County jury has convicted a Cleveland man in the 2025 shooting death of Razeil Robinson in Akron, and a judge will sentence him on Tuesday, November 17. Timothy Whitthorne, 34, of Cleveland, was found guilty of murder, felony murder, felonious assault, having weapons while under disability and three firearm specifications, according to Summit County Common Pleas Court records reported by the Akron Beacon Journal.
The case stems from the early morning hours of September 25, 2025, on the 1000 block of Rosemary Boulevard in Akron. An employee parking in a lot there found a cell phone with its flashlight still on, and later that day, as visibility improved, employees found Robinson, 27, nearby in the grass, prosecutors explained in a Summit County Prosecutor’s Office news release cited by the Akron Beacon Journal.
Officers who responded identified Robinson at the scene. Investigators determined he had been shot in the neck and chest, and prosecutors said the gunshot wound to his chest proved fatal, damaging his lungs and heart, according to the prosecutor’s office account reported by the Akron Beacon Journal.
Surveillance footage showed Whitthorne and a woman walking in the area before, during and after the shooting, prosecutors said. Akron police identified the woman, who told investigators Whitthorne shot Robinson multiple times after Robinson approached them, according to the prosecutor’s office news release.
After the shooting, Whitthorne and the woman fled first to a friend’s apartment and then to Cleveland, where the Northeast Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested Whitthorne. Officers recovered a Glock 40 that matched the shell casings found at the scene, according to the prosecutor’s office.
The evidence chain prosecutors laid out combined video, a witness and a recovered weapon. Surveillance footage placed Whitthorne and the woman in the Rosemary Boulevard area before, during and after the shooting; the woman identified Whitthorne as the shooter and said Robinson was shot multiple times after approaching them; and the Glock 40 officers recovered matched the shell casings at the scene, according to the prosecutor’s office news release reported by the Akron Beacon Journal.
Robinson was 27. His body was found in the grass near the parking lot where employees arriving for work first noticed a phone lying with its flashlight on — a detail prosecutors used to reconstruct the timeline of the early-morning shooting, according to the prosecutor’s office account.
Whitthorne is represented by attorneys Seneca Konturas and Christopher Rivero, the Akron Beacon Journal reported. Judge Jennifer Towell will sentence him at 10 a.m. on November 17 in Summit County Common Pleas Court. The convictions, including the firearm specifications, expose Whitthorne to a lengthy prison term, with the exact sentence to be set by the judge at that hearing.
The verdict closes the trial phase of a case that has been pending for more than a year, since the September 2025 shooting in a workplace parking area off Rosemary Boulevard. For the Summit County justice system, the case also arrives in a week when the county is in the news for its jail operations — the Summit County Jail earned a perfect state inspection score for the second straight year.
What we know — and what we’re still waiting on: the guilty verdicts on all counts and the November 17 sentencing date are confirmed through court records and the prosecutor’s office. Still to come are the sentence itself, any statement from Robinson’s family at the hearing, and whether the defense files a notice of appeal after sentencing.
What happens next: sentencing before Judge Jennifer Towell at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 17, in Summit County Common Pleas Court in Akron.