RIP JULIAN WOOD
Child murderer Bionca Ellis received lenient treatment multiple times
Yesterday, Bionca Ellis was found incompetent to stand trial for the aggravated murder of three-year-old Julian Wood in early June. Ellis carried a large knife around the North Olmsted Giant Eagle grocery store, scanning families until she spotted the Wood family, who are White. She then stabbed Wood who was sitting in the family grocery cart, and wounded his mother.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John Russo stated:
Bionca Ellis, 33, of Cleveland, will remain hospitalized indefinitely and could eventually stand trial if she improves. Her bail was set at $5 million shortly after the attack occurred, and her trial had been tentatively scheduled to start Dec. 9.
Ellis should have never been on the streets to begin with. On May 29th 2024, four days before the murder of Julian Wood, Ellis was actually in court in Ohio and ready to go to jail. But Rocky River Municipal Court Judge Brian Hagan released her, despite acknowledging she had serious mental health issues. As reported by the Daily Mail:
Records obtained by Fox 8 shows a magistrate at the Rocky River Municipal Court referred Bionca Ellis, 32, for a mental health evaluation after she seemingly became unresponsive at a hearing following her arrest for a parole violation on May 29.
But Judge Brian Hagan said the organization handling mental health evaluations had nobody available, and he thought it would be unjust for Ellis to sit in jail for days on a minor charge.
'There wasn't any red flags shooting up that pole,' Hagan said, explaining that there were 'no signs of mental distress, no signs of previous, violent acts.'
He would not have done anything differently, he said, even now --- knowing that Ellis is charged with aggravated murder for the death of the toddler.
Judge Hagan is a former trustee of Catholic Charities, which helps bring millions of illegals into the United States annually.
It appears Judge Hagan also ignored Ohio’s sentencing guidelines in making the Ellis release decision, which ultimately resulted in the death of an innocent child.
When Ellis was arrested in Ohio in May 2024, she was on the way to a bus stop in a wheelchair and police discovered there was a warrant out for her arrest. Ellis had been charged with shoplifting $69 worth of merchandise from a Walmart last May and pleaded guilty to the lesser crime of unauthorized use of property. The knife she used to stab Julian and his mother was also stolen, from a Volunteers of America Thrift Store. In May 2023, Ellis was back on the streets with six months' probation, but failed to do the required theft education program and an arrest warrant was issued. Ellis’ failure to comply with court policy should have raised a so-called “red flag” on the repetitive, reckless nature of her actions.
Ellis repeated violent claims to Cleveland police that she was a murderer and would murder again in February 2024. In January 2024, Ellis was arrested in Bakersfield, California on three counts of “battery on person” for allegedly assaulting three people. This is a “violent offense” which Ohio sentencing guidelines strictly advise against leniency for.
Per the Ohio Revised Code Section 2929.22 Determining appropriate sentence for misdemeanors:
In determining the appropriate sentence for a misdemeanor, the court shall consider all of the following factors:
(a) The nature and circumstances of the offense or offenses;
(b) Whether the circumstances regarding the offender and the offense or offenses indicate that the offender has a history of persistent criminal activity and that the offender's character and condition reveal a substantial risk that the offender will commit another offense;
(c) Whether the circumstances regarding the offender and the offense or offenses indicate that the offender's history, character, and condition reveal a substantial risk that the offender will be a danger to others and that the offender's conduct has been characterized by a pattern of repetitive, compulsive, or aggressive behavior with heedless indifference to the consequences;
(e) Whether the offender is likely to commit future crimes in general, in addition to the circumstances described in divisions (B)(1)(b) and (c) of this section
Judge Hagan totally ignored these guidelines when he released Ellis in May 2024. Ellis had a “history of persistent criminal activity” in multiple states. In March 2024, Ellis booked a hotel room in Kissimmee but had no money to pay for it. She was arrested and spent one month in jail for trespassing. Ellis’ “character and condition reveal a substantial risk that the offender will commit another offense” since she considered her arrest by Cleveland police in May 2024 a “free ride”. Ellis was a known batterer and acknowledged she was a murderer. She revealed a substantial risk of “danger to others” and her conduct was characterized by a pattern of “repetitive” (battery and theft), “aggressive behavior” “with heedless indifference to the consequences” (she refused to complete her sentencing for theft). Ellis was clearly likely to commit future crimes in general given her extensive criminal history covering theft, battery and trespassing in May 2024. Judge Hagan knew there were no mental health resources available for Ellis at the Rocky River Municipal Court, and refused to send her to jail for a mental health evaluation there. Judge Hagan ignored the Ohio sentencing guidelines for misdemeanors and released Ellis in May 2024. She then murdered a child in June 2024. This murder could have been prevented, if not for Judge Hagan and his unwarranted leniency.
If you are interested in reporting Judge Hagan for this cruel miscarriage of justice, you may do so by copying and pasting what I have written above, and submitting it here. You may do so anonymously: