Woman faces charge of homicide

YOUNGSTOWN -- City police arrested a 31-year-old South Side woman on a charge of reckless homicide after she admitted shooting a neighbor, police reports show.
The 49-year-old neighbor, whose identity was not being released early today, was found with a gunshot wound behind his left ear, lying on the dining room floor in his home on the 2500 block of Hunter Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. A .22-caliber handgun was found on the seat of a recliner near the body. He was transported to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The woman and several others were inside the residence when the shooting occurred, a witness told police. A man who lives at the residence said he was sleeping on a living room couch as the victim listened to music in the dining room. He said he heard a gunshot and went into the dining room to find the victim lying on the floor.