Police suspect homicide in Tod Avenue man’s death

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — On Sunday afternoon, about 12 hours after two people were found shot to death on Colt Court Southwest after an argument, police discovered another death that could also turn out to be a homicide.

David P. Allen, 50, of Tod Avenue Northwest, was found dead on the bed of his apartment bleeding from his head. The front door was open.

Allen’s father said he had last spoken with him July 27. Allen said he was not feeling well and had gone that day to the Warren West Community Health Center, a free health clinic on Tod Avenue Southwest.

Police are treating the death as a homicide until an autopsy can be performed to determine what caused Allen’s death, said Detective Wayne Mackey.

He expects to know results of the autopsy within a couple of days, Mackey said.

If Allen’s death is not ruled a homicide, the city will have recorded seven homicides for the year, one more than in all of 2008.

Four of the homicides were recorded in double homicides: the Colt Court killings and a gun attack April 13 on Wick Street Southeast that left 11-year-old Lloyd McCoy Jr. and Marvin Chaney, 26, dead.

Single deaths were recorded Jan. 18 on Lancer Court involving the gun death of Amaze D. King, 26; April 28 on Bonnie Brae Avenue Northeast involving burn victim Melissa Watson, 44; and July 29 on North Park Avenue involving stabbing victim Craig A. Holliday, 39.