Monday, November 20, 2006
WARREN — A 23-year-old Warren man is being held in the Trumbull County Jail in lieu of a $500,000 bond on a charge of murder.
Matthew R. Smith, of Williamsburg Street, was arraigned Monday before municipal Judge Terry Ivanchak, who scheduled a preliminary hearing for 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 22.
Smith, who was taken into custody Friday in Boardman, is accused of the Nov. 14 shotgun slaying of Waymon Keller, 50, of Euclid, outside a Lancer Court apartment building on the West Side.
Keller was found lying outside the building after being shot in the stomach with a shotgun.
Warren police Lt. Gary Vingle said Monday that investigators don’t have a motive for the shooting and don’t know the relationship between Smith and Keller. The weapon used in the slaying has not been found, he noted.