Jury selection under way for Melvin Dixon murder trial
YOUNGSTOWN — Jury selection began this afternoon and will resume at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the trial of Melvin T. Dixon Jr., the man charged with fatally shooting an Auto Zone clerk during a robbery 41⁄2 years ago on the city’s East Side.
Dixon, 27, of Devon Avenue, is charged with aggravated murder and aggravated robbery with a gun specification in the May 2, 2006, death of Edward Agee, 52, of Star Street.
Judge Lou A. D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who is presiding over the trial, has granted a prosecution motion for the jurors to view the Auto Zone store at 1960 McCartney Road, where Agee was fatally shot, once jury selection is completed.
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