Man indicted in Youngstown murder

July 10, 2008 at 4:46p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County grand jury has indicted a 26-year-old man on a murder charge with a gun specification in the June 11 shooting death of a 22-year-old East Pasadena Avenue man.

Damon Damous, of West Marion Avenue was indicted Thursday in the death of Lawrence E. Anderson II. Anderson was reported missing June 12 by his mother. His body was found June 30 in the basement of a vacant West Glenaven Avenue apartment complex.

Damous was jailed in Akron on an unrelated charge when Youngstown police issued the murder warrant for him on July 1. When Damous was brought to municipal court here last week, a municipal judge set his bond on the murder charge at $1.5 million.

The murder charge carries 15 years to life in prison, plus a mandatory consecutive three years for the gun specification.