18-year-old indicted in shooting death of teen

YOUNGSTOWN — A Mahoning County grand jury indicted an 18-year-old man charging him with the city’s fourth homicide this year.

Curtis Jones, 18, who listed a Maplewood Avenue address, was indicted today in the death of De’Vail Fleeton, 16, who was gunned down on the East Side. Jones is in Mahoning County jail on a $500,000 bond.

Witnesses told police that five black males wearing black, hooded sweat shirts and red ball caps chased De’Vail on March 26 from the Plaza View Apartments across Stewart Avenue and McGuffey Road, firing at the teen as he ran. After he fell, the suspects ran back into Plaza View.

De’Vail had been shot once in the back.

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