Kyle D. Lallman, 31, of Warren, pleaded guilty in the case over the Oct. 13, 2025, crash and the Nov. 4, 2025, death of Dakoda Church, 31, of Atwater, and was sentenced to at least four years in prison.
The Record-Courier reported that Lallman entered the plea during a Sept. 1 pretrial hearing. He pleaded guilty to second-degree felony aggravated vehicular homicide, fourth-degree felony failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, and first-degree misdemeanor operating a vehicle under the influence.
In its March report on the charges, the Record-Courier said Lallman initially faced second- and third-degree felony aggravated vehicular homicide counts. The report identified Suffield Township as the crash location.
What Ohio Law Requires
As reported by Ohio Laws, aggravated vehicular homicide committed in violation of certain provisions is classified as a first-degree felony, and the Ohio Revised Code directs courts to impose a mandatory prison term in those cases. The statute, housed within Ohio’s codified laws, does not spell out in the available excerpts how its provisions applied specifically to Lallman’s case, but it establishes the baseline framework that governs sentencing for the offense.
The crash occurred in October 2025, charges followed, Lallman pleaded guilty at a Sept. 1 pretrial hearing, and the sentence was announced Tuesday.
Statewide Motorcycle Crash Data
An Ohio State Highway Patrol bulletin found that from 2019 to 2023, 42 percent of motorcycle crashes involved only the motorcycle itself, rising to 46 percent when a crash was fatal. Those figures do not describe Church’s crash, but show how often fatal motorcycle crashes in Ohio occur without a second vehicle directly colliding.
Statewide Fatal-Crash Trend
The same Ohio State Highway Patrol bulletin reported that fatal motorcycle crashes in Ohio rose 10% in 2023, reaching their highest level in the five-year period it reviewed, even as motorcycle crashes overall fell 5%. These statewide figures do not establish whether fatal motorcycle crashes in Portage County have become more or less common.
What State Data Show
Looking at the broader 2020–2024 period, WTOL, citing Ohio State Highway Patrol figures, reported that motorcycle crashes rose 4% while fatal crashes fell 7%. Those statewide figures do not establish a Portage County trend or explain Church’s crash.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol bulletin also reported that 60% of fatal crashes involving motorcycles from 2019 to 2023 were alcohol and/or drug related, and that 71% of motorcyclists killed in crashes over the five years it reviewed were not wearing a helmet. These statewide statistics do not establish the circumstances of Church’s crash or whether she wore a helmet.
Portage County has seen comparable cases before. In a 2022 crash in Streetsboro that killed a motorcycle rider, a man was sentenced, according to the same news outlet’s coverage at the time. That case, like this one, drew public attention to the penalties tied to fatal motorcycle collisions in the region.
The sentencing resolves the criminal case after the Oct. 13, 2025, crash and Lallman’s guilty plea. Church died on Nov. 4, 2025. She was 31 and from Atwater.
