3 Youngstown killings probed in 24 hours

By ED RUNYAN

VINDICTOR STAFF WRITER

YOUNGSTOWN — City police investigated two homicides Sunday evening, bringing the city’s total to three homicides in 24 hours.

The three deaths brings the city’s total to 33 for the year, one more than was recorded in all of 2006. The city had 28 at this time in 2006.

Police found Henry “Tiny” Wilson, 68, of 2661 McGuffey Road, dead on a couch in his living room when they arrived at the East Side home about 9:15 p.m. Saturday. Police said Wilson was dead at the scene of a gunshot wound to his chest.

A 46-year-old man who said he lives with Wilson told police he was in the basement doing laundry, and a 23-year-old Hubbard man, the boyfriend of Wilson’s daughter, was upstairs playing chess with Wilson when a female he didn’t know entered the house.

The housemate said he heard a struggle and then a gunshot and then saw two men running from the house.

Police say the call came in as a robbery, but they don’t know yet whether it was.

Meanwhile, investigators responded to a shooting at a house at 223 S. Truesdale Ave. on the East Side about 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

A man who was visiting a relative’s house a couple of houses away said emergency medical workers took a man from the basement of the house with a serious gunshot wound to the head. He said the man’s brother found him in the basement of the house. The man later died.

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