Youngstown police seek Charles C. Richardson

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a man charged with murder and now hiding from the law.

Police say Charles C. Richardson, 24, of Alameda Avenue has been in hiding since learning that he was indicted on charges of murder, discharging a firearm into a home and felonious assault after a direct presentment to the grand jury in June.

Police charged Richardson in the Feb. 21 shooting death of 24-year-old Melkanoe L. Bowman. According to reports, Bowman was shot in the head in the 900 block of Delaware Avenue on the city’s North Side in what police said was a feud. Witnesses told police dozens of shots were fired outside the home.

A bullet from the shooting also hit a 6-year-old boy across the street in his left foot as he slept, resulting in the felonious assault charge.

Anyone with information is asked to call 1(866) 4-WANTED (926833) where anonymous information can be given to authorities. Monetary rewards are given for information leading to an arrest.