Second shooting victim dies

Additional charges are likely within a couple of weeks, Howland police said.

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — A second man has died in connection with the Dec. 23 shooting death of 21-year-old Cameron Murray on the doorstep of his Sandpiper Court apartment in Howland.

Delshawn R. Scrivens, 25, of Wood Street Southwest in Warren, died Monday morning in St. Joseph Health Center after being shot multiple times Dec. 23.

Howland Police Chief Paul Monroe said he could not provide additional information about Scrivens’ role in Murray’s death except to say that Scrivens was connected.

Just one person, Michael A. Ahladis, 23, of Jefferson Street Southwest, has been charged in Murray’s death so far.

A Trumbull County grand jury indicted Ahladis last month on a charge of complicity to aggravated burglary, and he remains in Trumbull County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bond.

Monroe said additional charges will be filed against Ahladis and others in the coming weeks.

Investigators are awaiting lab results from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigations in order to complete their investigation, Monroe said.

Scrivens was sentenced to five years in prison in 2002 in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on charges of felonious assault, tampering with evidence and a specification that he committed the felonious assault with a gun.

Monroe has said Murray was found shot in the doorway of the four-year-old apartment complex off of East Market Street a short distance west of Howland High School.

The shooting apparently took place a little before 4 p.m., when a construction worker noticed Murray’s body in the doorway.

There was a lot of activity in the apartment complex from construction workers, but no workers or neighbors reported hearing any gunshots, Monroe said.

At around the same time that Murray’s body was found, two men were taken to area hospitals with gunshot wounds. Warren police investigated to determine whether their shootings were related to the homicide.

Lt. Gary Vingle confirmed that Scrivens was one of the two men who went to the hospital Dec. 23 but declined to comment further.