62-year-old South Side man shot dead in his apartment

By ED RUNYAN
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police say they have not made any arrests in the early Sunday shooting death of a Glenwood Avenue man.
James Young, 62, of 374 Glenwood, was pronounced dead at St. Elizabeth Health Center after being taken there by ambulance.
Police were called to the apartment about 2 a.m. by a woman who said she had been at an area tavern with Young and another man.
When the three arrived at the South Side apartment, they found the back door had been kicked in.
Two men with bandannas over their mouths and wearing hats then entered the home through the broken door, walked past the woman, and entered the room where Young and the other man were standing.
One of them was carrying a gun, the police report said.
One masked man asked Young and the other man for money, and the one man with the weapon fired two warning shots into the floor.
Young turned over $30 and two gold chains, the police report said. The gunman then asked Young for "his stuff," to which Young replied that he didn't have anything.
Shots fired
The gunman then fired several times at Young, the woman reported.
The man with Young said that when the shooting started, he and the woman ran for cover, and Young ran toward the stairs of the apartment, where he collapsed.
The woman said as the men ran past her, they pointed the gun at her.
The case has been turned over to detectives and crime lab technicians. Officers searched the vehicle Young had been driving Saturday evening and found a gun in a tan jacket, police said.
The apartment appeared to have been ransacked, with a chair turned over and objects thrown all over the floor, police said.
The death is the city's 13th homicide this year and the first since June 3.
The city had recorded 14 homicides at this time in 2005.
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