Probe continues into stabbing and shooting

Police found no evidence of road rage along state Route 11.

HOWLAND — Charges will most likely be filed against the person or persons accused of stabbing one man and shooting a second man last week, Police Chief Paul Monroe said Tuesday.

Craig Hall, 25, of Pembrook Road, Austintown, remains in Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, where he is being treated for two bullet wounds of the upper chest suffered March 26. He was dropped off at the hospital.

The same morning, Sergio Charvarria, 24, of Fuller Drive, Howland, arrived at St. Joseph Health Center with a stab would of the left leg. He has since been released.

“There will eventually be charges filed, but not yet,” Monroe said, noting a lot of questions remain unanswered.

The chief explained the Ohio State Highway Patrol was called about 3:30 a.m. to TMH where Hall had been dropped off in a car driven by a 27-year-old Youngstown man, who is a federal parolee, and an unidentified woman.

The patrol was told by witnesses the two men were involved in a road-rage incident on state Route 11 in Liberty, between state Route 82 and Tibbetts-Wick Road. They said another motorist got out of his car and shot Hall. Monroe said there are no indications of a shooting along Route 11, however.

The chief said Charvarria, who is known to township police, said he was stabbed, but Charvarria said hedidn’t know where it happened.

Since Charvarria had been stabbed and badly beaten at his Fuller home last October, police went to the house again. There, Monroe said, police picked up a trail that led to bloody clothing.

“It’s not the first time we’ve been there for a bloody crime scene,” the chief said.

Police have executed a search warrant at Charvarria’s home and for Hall’s DNA, the chief added.