2 indicted in drive-by murder of 3-year-old

An additional man was indicted in a separate shooting.

YOUNGSTOWN — A Mahoning County grand jury has indicted three young men on aggravated murder charges, two of them in the recent shooting death of a 3-year-old girl, and the third in the Dec. 30 shooting death of a 31-year-old man.

Stoney Williams, 18, of Dorothy Avenue, and Damon Clark, 22, of Dogwood Lane, were indicted Thursday in the death of Cherish Moreland, 3, of Hilton Avenue, who was wounded in the head in a drive-by shooting on May 5. Police alleged Williams shot the girl as she walked with her aunt on Stewart Avenue on the city’s East Side.

Williams and Clark are charged with two counts of aggravated murder, one count of murder and one count of improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation.

One aggravated murder count charges Williams and Clark with purposely causing the girl’s death with prior calculation and design, and the other specifies the girl was under age 13. The murder count alleges the defendants killed the girl while shooting at a house. Firearm specifications accompany all counts.

Williams is a son of Willie “Flip” Williams, who was executed in October 2005 for the 1991 shooting deaths of four men in Youngstown.

In the Dec. 30 shooting, Darrin Davis, 17, of East Florida Avenue, was indicted on a charge of the aggravated murder of Anthony Perez of Youngstown and attempted murder in the wounding of William Burr with firearm specifications. Davis’ case originated in juvenile court.

Davis’ stepbrother, Reshaud Biggs, 21, also of East Florida Avenue, who was captured in Cleveland in February, was indicted in March on the same charges in the same shooting. Several men opened fire because of a car theft accusation, hitting Perez multiple times as he detailed a car in the 600 block of Clearmont Avenue on the city’s South Side, police said.