19-year-old arraigned in shooting death

The shooting appears to have been accidental, police said.
YOUNGSTOWN -- The 19-year-old Youngstown man charged in the shooting death of Travis Garcia of Haseltine Avenue was arraigned Monday via video in municipal court.
Jovaun D. Lave faces charges of negligent homicide and unlawful possession of a dangerous ordnance. Judge Robert P. Milich set bond at 45,000.
Lave also was arraigned on a charge of failure to appear in court last month on a charge of possession of marijuana. Bond was set at 5,000 in the drug case.
Dana C. Guarnieri, assistant city prosecutor, said Lave had a clip that contained 31 rounds. The dangerous-ordnance charge could be elevated to a federal charge of having a weapon under disability (which means he's not allowed to have a firearm because of a prior conviction), she said.
Guarnieri said Lave's record includes a domestic violence conviction.
What happened
Garcia, 18, was shot in the abdomen at his home around 2:30 p.m. Friday and died later at St. Elizabeth Health Center. Police found Garcia at the top of the stairs to the second floor.
Capt. Kenneth Centorame, chief of detectives, said the shooting appears to be accidental, with Lave showing substantial negligence.
Police said Lave, who turned himself in at 7:30 p.m. Friday, showed them where he buried the gun under a pile of snow in a wooded area near Haseltine on the East Side.
Court records show Lave was charged with theft in Mahoning County Area Court, Boardman, in July 2006 and failed to appear for arraignment.
He was arrested in January on a bench warrant but then released from the Mahoning County jail on a court summons.
He failed again to appear in Boardman court, and another bench warrant was issued Feb. 21, records show.
Although a police report lists Lave's address as Newton Street, Canfield, he has not lived there, the resident said. Court records from last summer show his address as North Brockway Avenue.