EAST SIDE Carjacked Bonneville turns up with shooting victim's body in it

Investigators are asking for anyone with information to call.
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 2001 Pontiac Bonneville reported carjacked from a gas station on East Midlothian Boulevard turned up in the driveway of a vacant house on the East Side with a body in the back seat, police said.
Mahoning County coroner's investigator Rick Jamrozik said the man, found Friday morning, had been shot twice in the torso but probably was not shot in the car. The victim's pants had been pulled down and his shirt pulled up, a sign of disrespect, Jamrozik said.
No identification was found at the scene. Anyone with information about the crime or the man's identity is asked to call Detective Sgt. John Patton at (330) 742-8911 or Jamrozik at (330) 740-2175.
The victim is described as a well-built 5-foot-11-inch, 160-pound, slightly balding black man in his mid-40s with a graying goatee. Jamrozik said the man has a scar on his right cheek and was wearing a light brown Carhartt coat, light brown pants, a Quality Inn polo-type shirt and size 11 black tennis shoes. A crack pipe and lighter were found on him, nothing more.
Jamrozik said he checked the Quality Inn on Belmont Avenue, but workers there didn't know the victim. The investigator said he learned the motel hasn't issued the shirts, used by maintenance and housekeeping workers, in about two years.
The shooting marks the city's 34th homicide of the year, 12 more than for all of 2004.
A concerned citizen who saw the black Pontiac in the driveway at 2832 Stacey St. called police around 8:30 a.m. Friday, said Detective Sgt. Doug Bobovnyik.
Bobovnyik said the car had been taken in a robbery.
Stolen Friday
The Pontiac's owner, a 37-year-old Austintown man, told police that the car was taken from him at the Shell gas station at 505 East Midlothian on the South Side early Friday.
The man said he was standing to use the pay phone about 5 feet away from the car, which he left running. The suspect approached, keeping both hands in his jacket as if concealing a gun, and told the owner to move away from the car, reports show.
The suspect, described as a 5-foot-9-inch, 160-pound black man wearing all dark clothes, then got into the car and drove off, heading north on South Avenue, the owner told police.