Investigation continues in Warren man’s death

The dead man had been charged with crimes in municipal court 16 times since 1994.

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — Police are investigating the Sunday shooting death of a 37-year-old city man on North Feederle Street Southeast in the Trumbull Homes apartment complex.

The man was identified as James I. Folmar of 2080 South Feederle Drive, who was under indictment in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on a felonious assault charge.

Folmar was charged with various crimes in Warren Municipal Court 16 times since 1994. Charges included abduction, arson, domestic violence, robbery, receiving stolen property, aggravated burglary and felonious assault three times. Folmar was sentenced to six months in prison in 1999 on an aggravated assault.

Police found Folmar’s body in the street while responding to several calls of gunshots fired in the area of Trumbull Homes at 3:52 a.m. A police report said witnesses heard gunshots and saw someone running away.

Sgt. Jeff Cole of the Warren Police Department said no arrests have been made. He was unable to say how many times Folmar had been shot and didn’t know of anything that led up to the shooting.

The location where Folmar’s body was found is about 11‚Ñ2 blocks west of the Willard K-8 School on Willard Avenue Southeast, which was locked down for 15 minutes Monday because of gunfire that erupted at a house a short distance north of the school.

Folmar lived in the apartment complex, a couple blocks farther south and west of the school.

Cole said he’s not aware of any other incidents from the neighborhood last week that might be related to Folmar’s death.

Folmar’s death is the 10th homicide of the year in Warren, which recorded six in 2008 and 12 in 2007.