Victims ID Howard

WARREN — Two gunshot victims have identified Jason Howard as their assailant.

Mario Sowell, 30, of First Street, and Dontai Young, 26, of Lane Drive, testified during a hearing to suppress evidence in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court that Howard shot them.

Howard, 24, of Liberty, is accused in the June 19 aggravated murder of Phillip Dally, 24, of Ohio Avenue, whose body was found in a vacant lot on Front Street.

He is also charged with the June 18 attempted murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping of Sowell and June 21 wounding of Young, who was shot in the arm.

Defense attorneys Robert Lewis and Jeffrey Goodman are asking Judge John M. Stuard to throw out as evidence a photo array used to identify Howard as the assailant, and his confession to police.

The hearing was continued indefinitely until the prosecution can locate two other witnesses.