Person of interest in homicide sent to jail

Police are awaiting results of tests being done on two guns.

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — A person of interest in a Sunday night homicide is in Trumbull County Jail without bond on a weapons charge after being released from a local hospital.

Taemarr L. Walker, 19, of Jackson Street Southwest, was released Wednesday from Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital after being shot in the chest.

He was taken into police custody on a charge of being a convicted felon in illegal possession of a weapon, a third-degree felony.

On Thursday, he pleaded innocent to the charge in Warren Municipal Court, where Judge Terry Ivanchak ordered Walker to jail without bond.

Warren Police Detective Wayne Mackey said Walker is prohibited from having a firearm because he is under indictment in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on drug possession and drug trafficking charges.

He is set to appear Monday for a pretrial on those charges.

Walker is a person of interest in the shooting death of Ahmaze D. King, 26, of the Lancer Court Apartments off West Market Street on the city’s West Side.

King was found dead Sunday night in his living room of a gunshot wound to the head.

Officers responded to the nearby Deer Run Apartments on Commerce Street about 11:15 p.m. because someone was knocking on doors, saying he had been shot.

The man, believed to be Walker, was taken by a friend to the hospital.

A police officer followed footprints between the Deer Run Apartments and the Lancer Court Apartments to find King, who had been shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police recovered two guns near the two apartment complexes and are having them analyzed by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, Mackey said.

Police will know more about whether the wounding of Walker and the death of King are related after results of those tests are received.

That could take weeks or months, the detective added.

Walker is due back in Warren Municipal Court for a preliminary hearing on the weapons charge before Judge Ivanchak at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday.