Police investigate fatal shooting

By Ed Runyan

The man who was shot to death Sunday also had been shot in September.

WARREN — Police are continuing to investigate the Sunday night shooting death of Ahmaze D. King, 26, of Lancer Court Apartments on the West Side.

Police were called to the Commerce Street Apartments behind the Austin Village Plaza at about 11:15 p.m. because someone was knocking on doors “saying he’d been shot,” said Warren Detective Wayne Mackey.

When officers got there, the man knocking on doors had gotten a ride to Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, Mackey said.

Warren Police Sgt. John Yuricek followed footprints between the Commerce Street Apartments and the nearby Lancer Court Apartments, just west of the plaza, and found King dead in the living room of his apartment at 3076 Lancer Court, Mackey said.

King had been shot multiple times, was bleeding from the head, wasn’t breathing or moving and was later pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Taemarr L. Walker, 19, of Jackson Street Southwest, Warren, was in the intensive care unit at the hospital Monday with at least one gunshot wound, Mackey said. Police believe Walker is the man who was knocking on doors, Mackey said.

Walker and King knew each other, but police don’t know yet whether King’s death and Walker’s shooting are related, Mackey said.

“We can’t positively tie these together. We’re looking at whether they’re connected,” Mackey said.

King was convicted of possession of marijuana in 2006 and carrying a concealed weapon in 2001, both in Warren Municipal Court. He was also convicted of failure to comply with the order of a police officer in 2002 in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court and sentenced to a year in prison in 2002 and six months in jail for attempted possession of heroin in 2001.

King was the victim of a shooting Sept. 9, 2008, at Highland Avenue and Fourth Street Southwest in the city.

King, who was living on Fourth Street at the time, told police he had been shot in the thigh while walking near Fourth Street and Highland.

The shooting took place on an afternoon when police received reports of 10 shots being fired at the intersection and young people “running everywhere,” then shots being fired at the same location about 15 minutes later.

Walker was indicted in October on drug possession and drug trafficking charges and was free on bond.

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