Jury sequestered in Young capital murder trial

YOUNGSTOWN — The jury in the Curtis Young capital murder case could not arrive at a verdict today and were sequestered overnight in a local hotel.

The jury will resume deliberations Friday morning in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Young, 26, is charged with aggravated murder with firearm and death-penalty specifications.

The charges stem from a July 31, 2007, shooting, which caused the deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Helen Moore, 29, of Cassius Street, her nearly full-term unborn child, and her 8-year-old son, Ceonei, who was the front-seat passenger in the car Moore was driving when she was shot outside Young’s Center Street residence.