Mystery surrounds Youngstown’s latest homicide victim

YOUNGSTOWN — Marcus L. Drummond’s family can’t understand why someone would end his life.

“We don’t know anything, it’s a real mystery,” said ex-wife Michelle Drummond, 38, of Sharon. “He was a real people person. We don’t know who would do it.”

Drummond, 42, of 642 Manchester Ave., was found by a male friend around 3 p.m. Wednesday lying in a pool of blood on his kitchen floor. Capt. Kenneth Centorame, chief of detectives, said today police found no forced entry to the West Side house, and nothing had been disturbed, leading them to believe that no struggle occurred.

No gun or shell casings were found in the house.

Centorame said Drummond’s death is being treated as a homicide after a preliminary examination by a medical examiner determined he had been shot in the back of the head. Police believe the victim had been dead for several hours.

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