TRUMBULL COUNTY Grand jury will hear case of Warren shooting suspect

The defendant is being held in the county jail in lieu of a $250,000 bond.
By PEGGY SINKOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- A Trumbull County grand jury will soon hear the case of a 23-year-old city man accused of shooting two people earlier this month.
Marco Dukes of Wick Street, Warren, waived his right to a preliminary hearing in municipal court. He is facing two counts of felonious assault.
Dukes is in the county jail in lieu of $250,000 bond.
Dukes' attorney, J. Gerald Ingram, declined to comment.
Because grand jury proceedings are secret, the hearing date was not available.
The crime
Police say that Dukes went into a home on Woodbine Southeast on June 18 and shot two people, Marlayne Wesley, 18, of Burton Street, and Michael W. Wilson Jr., 23, of Swallow Southwest.
Detectives say they do not have a motive for the shooting. Wesley and Wilson remain hospitalized.
A few hours after the shooting, Dukes was at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown to be treated for injuries, police said.
Dukes told Youngstown police that unidentified suspects shot him on the South Side of Youngstown. He also said that a woman dropped him off near the Westlake projects, where he wandered into the road and was picked up by a passing motorist, who took him to the hospital.
At the hospital, Dukes was given a gunshot residue test.
Youngstown police questioned the motorist who took Dukes to the hospital and seized a loaded handgun from the car, as well as a black coat with three bullet holes.
Dukes was arrested here a few weeks before the shooting on a charge of illegal possession of a weapon and carrying a concealed weapon. He had pleaded innocent in Warren municipal court to those charges and was released on a $5,000 bond. Those charges are still pending.
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