100 watch, but no one offers clues to police in Warren homicide

By David Skolnick

WARREN — Despite about 100 witnesses, Warren police have little information on a shooting that left a 20-year-old city man dead.

“No one’s coming forward” to provide details of the murder of Derek Thrash about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, said police Sgt. Dan Mason.

Thrash of Southern Boulevard was standing outside the Big Apple Convenience Food Market on Youngstown Warren Road when he was gunned down, Mason said.

“A large group of people are outside there every weekend,” he said.

But after multiple shots were fired at Thrash and before police arrived, the group — including the murder victim — were gone, Mason said.

Thrash was taken by friends about 30 minutes to an hour after being shot to Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, where he died, Mason said.

Police hadn’t made an arrest as of late Sunday and have no suspects in the murder.

Thrash’s death represents the city’s eighth homicide of 2009.

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