Shooting victims in Austintown have criminal records

AUSTINTOWN — The victims of Saturday’s shooting at an Austintown apartment complex, identified by police today, have criminal histories.

Odomie A. Wellington, 31, whose address was listed as the Westchester Executive Apartments, 4884 Westchester Drive, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds around 7 p.m. Saturday. He was in the driver’s seat of a white Cadillac parked outside the apartment complex.

His passenger, 21-year-old Alekum N. McLendon, of Youngstown, was shot in the lower back and taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center. Police Chief Robert Gavalier said this afternoon that his last update from the hospital stated McLendon was still in serious condition.

Wellington had been released from prison in 2007, after serving five out of six years for the Sept. 2, 2000, shooting of Kyreese Haymon, who was 13 months old at the time. He pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and felonious assault charges in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in 2001.

The second victim, McLendon, of Lansdowne Boulevard, was indicted by a Mahoning County grand jury for illegal gun possession and improperly handling a gun in a motor vehicle in 2008, and in July he was arrested and charged with receiving stolen property.

After releasing the names of both men, police still had no suspects.

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