Alleged KFC triggerman charged with another crime

BOARDMAN — The man Youngstown police say was the triggerman in the armed robbery last week of a KFC manager has been charged with another crime in the township.

Township police charged Taran Helms, 22, West Hylda Avenue, Youngstown, Wednesday with attempted robbery.

A 38-year-old woman reported on Dec. 23 that a man had tried to steal her purse. Police later identified Helms as the man.

The woman told police that the man approached her from behind as she was getting into her car, telling her to move over in her car. When she refused, he grabbed her face so that she couldn’t scream.

Two other women saw the scuffle and pulled the man off of the victim. The man dropped the woman’s purse when he fell, got up and fled.