2 plead innocent in Fimognari, Brown murders
Houser remains in jail on $3M bond
Magistrate Eugene Fehr of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court will preside over the arraignment of Jamar Houser, the suspect in the Jan. 23 murder of Angeline Fimognari at St. Dominic Church. Houser faces the death penalty in the fatal shooting of Fimognari.
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
A Mahoning County magistrate has continued the high bonds under which two murder suspects — Jamar Houser and Darold Lee Shorter — are jailed.
Both cases are tentatively set for trial next month after both men pleaded innocent at Tuesday’s arraignments in common pleas court.
Houser, who faces death-penalty specifications in the Jan. 23 murder of Angeline Fimognari at St. Dominic Church, is set for trial April 12.
A grand jury indicted Houser, 19, of Volney Road, on charges of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery and being a felon in illegal possession of a gun.
Fimognari, 80, of Sheridan Road, was fatally shot in the head in the South Side church’s parking lot when she left the church after its 8 a.m. Saturday Mass.
Attys. John B. Juhasz and Lynn Maro have been appointed to represent Houser, who remains jailed under a $3 million bond set in Youngstown Municipal Court.
Shorter, 42, of West Earle Avenue, remains jailed under $1.1 million bond in the Jan. 28 stabbing death of Lamont Brown, 33, also of West Earle.
Shorter’s trial on murder and cocaine-possession charges is set for April 19. Atty. Douglas King was appointed to represent Shorter.
Magistrate Eugene J. Fehr presided over the arraignments of both defendants, and Judge Lou A. D’Apolito is assigned to preside over their trials.