17-year-old girl shot to death

A 17-year-old girl was shot to death on Ford Avenue while walking home at 12:30 a.m. Saturday with a teenage boy who was wounded in the drive-by shooting.

Maressia Patterson of Upland Avenue and Akeem Minor, also 17, of Lauderdale Avenue had been at a party on Lora Avenue, said Capt. Kenneth Centorame, chief of detectives. He said Minor's injuries were not life threatening.

Two arrests were made after Detective Sgts. Rick Spotleson and Ron Rodway pieced together what happened.

Deon Glenn, 18, of Glenwood Avenue was arrested around 8 a.m. at home and a gun, believed to be the murder weapon, was recovered from the back yard. He faces charges of murder and felonious assault.

Centorame said Glenn was a passenger in a car driven by Robert Jackson Jr., 18, of Youngstown. Jackson, whose mother turned him in to police at 3 a.m., faces charges of complicity to murder and felonious assault.

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