Ex-rape suspect admits 2 killings

Warren Municipal Court records show only traffic offenses for the former Warren man.

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — A grand jury refused to indict a former city man when he confessed to multiple rapes in 2007. Now a grand jury will be asked whether there is probable cause to believe he killed two people.

On Tuesday, Norris A. Mills, 42, most recently of Eagle, Utah, waived a preliminary hearing in Warren Muncipal Court on two counts of aggravated murder, and his case was bound over to a Trumbull County grand jury.

Judge Thomas Gysegem continued his $2 million bond.

Warren police took Mills into custody Wednesday after he walked into Warren Police Department to claim responsibility for the deaths of Andrea Reynolds, 30, and her uncle, John Freeman Jr., 50.

Reynolds and Freeman were found stabbed to death in their home at 2631 Front St. S.W. on June 11, 2007.

Mills lived not far from Reynolds and Freeman on Front Street Southwest during part of 2007.

It was while he was living there in February 2007 that he walked into the Warren Police Department and talked of sexually assaulting children in Niles and Bazetta.

Police in both communities later charged him with raping juvenile girls, but a grand jury refused to indict him.

Mills has never been charged with a criminal offense in Warren Municipal Court or Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, other than traffic violations.