YOUNGSTOWN Jury being chosen in homicide

The victim was found slumped in a car on Ridge Avenue, shot in the head.
By BOB JACKSON
VINDICATOR COURTHOUSE REPORTER
YOUNGSTOWN -- Jury selection began Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, where Jesse Driver III is on trial in a shooting death that police say was triggered by a dispute over a woman.
Driver, 27, of West Glenaven Avenue, is charged with murder in the killing of 24-year-old Charles Green of Lansdowne Boulevard on Sept. 1, 2002.
Green was found slumped in a Cadillac on Ridge Avenue, shot in the right side of his head, neck and right shoulder. A 9mm handgun was on the passenger seat beside him.
Green was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he died several hours later.
A county grand jury indicted Driver two weeks after the shooting. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, plus a mandatory three years for using a firearm.
Detective Sgt. Ronald Rodway of the Youngstown Police Department said Driver was apparently angry that Green had been dating his girlfriend.
Rodway said Driver showed up at the woman's house the night of the shooting and found her sitting in a car with Green, who was in the driver's seat. He said Driver pulled the woman out of the car, then fired into the car at Green.
"As far as we can determine, that's what it was over," Rodway said.
The trial was to continue today in the courtroom of Judge Robert Lisotto.
2001 crime
At the time he was shot, Green was awaiting trial on a felonious-assault charge out of Youngstown Municipal Court. He was accused of using a sawed-off shotgun to beat Derrick A. Tinsley, 26, of Youngstown.
Tinsley suffered several facial fractures including a broken jaw, police said.
A witness told police that Tinsley's car was boxed in by two vehicles on Victor Street at Buckeye Circle on the city's East Side around 3:30 a.m. Dec. 22, 2001. When Tinsley got out, four men jumped him and used rifles or shotguns to bludgeon his face and head, police say.
One of the assailants drove Tinsley to a hospital, then got out of the car and ran away.
Rodway said police don't believe Green's shooting is related to the assault on Tinsley.
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