YOUNGSTOWN HOMICIDES Do 3 weekend slayings foreshadow bad news for the summer?

There hadn't been a homicide in Youngstown for more than two months.
YOUNGSTOWN -- The city isn't in for a long, hot violent summer despite three weekend homicides, the city police department's spokesman said.
The killings -- two Friday night and one Sunday morning -- were planned, not spur of the moment, Detective Sgt. Rick Alli said without further explanation.
He said the double homicide at the Westlake Terrace apartments was unrelated to a shooting in which the victim was found on East Indianola Avenue.
The deaths, the first in more than two months, bring the total homicides to six this year. At this time last year, the city had recorded nine homicides.
Alli doesn't see the deaths as a harbinger of things to come as a cool spring turns to hot summer. Between May and August last year, the city recorded 15 homicides.
Working the cases
Alli said two teams of detectives are working the cases from the weekend.
The victims were identified as Sampson Williams III, 34, of Fairgreen and Clearmont avenues; Ronnie R. Summers, 45, of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Apt. 19; and Korey R. James, 22, of Winona Avenue. Alli said Williams and Summers had several addresses in the city.
A gunman shot Williams and Summers inside Summers' Westlake Terrace apartment on the North Side, Alli said. He said there were no signs of an argument.
Detective Sgt. John Kelty said the motive is unclear at this time.
Reports show Willams was dead at the scene on a couch around 11:50 p.m. Friday, shot three times in the face and chest.
Summers, who crawled outside and collapsed near the door, died several hours later from a gunshot to the chest. A witness heard four shots. A neighbor didn't hear the gunfire but told police that Summers knocked on his door asking that an ambulance be called.
James, found just before 8 a.m. Sunday in the driveway at 619 E. Indianola Ave., the Fabrizio Funeral Home, was killed elsewhere, then dumped, Alli said. As with the double shooting, the motive wasn't immediately known.