Three people knew each other, now two are dead

WARREN — Police believe three people who knew each other stood in the parking lot of the Colt Court apartment complex in Southwest Warren at around 3:12 a.m. Sunday, and one of them — Michael L. McDonald, 25, of Lener Avenue Southwest — was armed with a rifle.

They believe McDonald opened fire, killing Mocha Jones, 25, of 1704 Colt Court Southwest and Donte Broadus, 31, of Clearwater Street Northwest and leaving three children without a mother.

McDonald is being sought by police.

Detectives say at least a couple of Jones’ children were at Jones’ apartment, which was just a short distance from where her body was found. Colt Court is run by the Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority, which runs government-subsidized apartments.

McDonald was sentenced in February in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to two years probation on an attempted cocaine possession charge.

He was sentenced to nine months in prison in 2006 for improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle and 18 months in prison in 2003 for receiving stolen property and using a firearm in commission of his crime.

Jones also had a felony conviction in 2007 in Trumbull County for theft and was placed on two years probation.

Broadus was wanted for failure to appear on a criminal damaging and endangering charge in Warren Municipal Court but had no felony record in Trumbull County.