YOUNGSTOWN Shootings leave 2 dead, 1 injured

Two North Side shootings occurred moments apart.
YOUNGSTOWN -- The city recorded two homicides Tuesday, one in the afternoon on the East Side, and the other in the evening on the North Side.
Police found the first victim, Stephen Shackleford, 29, of McBride Street, lying in the street a few feet from his residence in the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority's Victory Annex complex, police reports show. Shackleford, fatally shot at 1:19 p.m., was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center by ambulance.
Witnesses told police that Shackleford had been chased from his home by two men shooting at him. The men then tried to get back into the home after the shooting, failed and fled. Police said they have suspects, but no arrests have been made.
At 10:15 p.m., police went to shootings that occurred moments apart at two nearby North Side addresses. Tyrell Perry, 32, was found shot to death with several gunshot wounds inside a house with an open door in the 50 block of Bissell Avenue, police reports show. Perry's son, 18 months, was found sleeping in an upstairs bedroom and was carried from that house to his mother's care.
Police found suspected marijuana and possible crack cocaine near the body. Keys to the door were in the door lock as if the victim had led his killer to the residence, police reports say.
A witness told police the shooting may have stemmed from a robbery involving the victim and another man.
In critical condition: Minutes later, police were called to the 1500 block of Kensington Avenue where a man was shot in the lower abdomen. Brandon Owens, 17, no address given, was taken to St. Elizabeth's, where he was in critical condition this morning.
He told police he and his girlfriend were walking outside when he heard gunshots and fell with a pain in his side. He said that she fled and he went to the Kensington Avenue address for help. He initially told police he was shot on Elm Street, then Thornton Avenue, then Bryson Street.
Witnesses said they had seen Owens enter the Kensington address with another male.
Owens carried handgun rounds and eight rocks of suspected crack cocaine, police reports show.