Tuesday is year anniversary of quadruple homicide

YOUNGSTOWN — Not a week goes by that someone doesn’t ask detectives how close they are to solving an execution-style quadruple murder.

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of a quadruple homicide on the South Side. Councilman Paul Drennan, D-5th, said a candlelight prayer vigil to remember the four victims will be at 6:30 p.m. that day outside 548 W. Evergreen Ave.

The bodies of a woman and three men in winter coats were discovered by a visitor around 10:30 p.m. inside a second-floor bedroom at 548 West Evergreen., a run-down 86-year-old house. The victims — Anthony M. Crockett, 23; Christopher D. Howard, 24; Marvin E. Boone, 19; and Danielle Parker, 22 — had all been shot in the head and body.

There was no discernible forced entry, police said.

The three-bedroom house, with assorted hues of garish wall paint in every room, was apparently being readied for renters. Crockett and Parker had been staying there, according to Vindicator files.

Records show it had been purchased about three weeks before the shootings, but not by any of the victims.

On Jan. 29, 2007, the small southeast bedroom, with a view of the street, held three couches. First officers at the scene found two dead men lying on separate couches and the third man sprawled on the floor in front of the third couch. The dead woman, curled in a fetal position, lay face down in a corner.

Today, the vacant house is empty of furniture.

Wind whips in through broken windows. The front door is ajar. A wheelchair sits in the living room. The trash-filled detached garage is wide open.

Read more in Sunday’s Vindicator and at Vindy.com