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Third suspect in murder arrested
YOUNGSTOWN
A third man wanted in a double murder on the city’s North Side has been taken into custody, leaving only one more suspect at large.
Keilan A. Clinkscale, 22, of Coronado Avenue, turned himself in to police Wednesday morning and was immediately arraigned before Magistrate Daniel P. Dascenzo of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on two counts of murder with firearm specifications.
Clinkscale pleaded not guilty to the charges, but was given no bond. The issue of bond will be addressed by the judge who will oversee Clinkscale’s court proceedings. Clinkscale told the court he will hire his own attorney.
Clinkscale and three other men are charged with the Aug. 6 Wirt Street shooting deaths of 19-year-old Jasmon Reeder and 56-year-old Oscar Teague.
Youngstown police records show that Reeder suffered a gunshot wound to the head, and Teague was shot in the back. Reeder was pronounced dead at the scene, and Teague died later at St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Mario Rico Correa, 20, of Syracuse, N.Y., and Stephen Johnson, 19, of Coronado Avenue, are being held in the Mahoning County jail. Police are still looking for Quentin T. Jones, 23, of Jackson Street.
When police allege he took part in the murders, Clinkscale was free on $60,000 bond on felony-murder charges related to the February 2009 death of 24-year-old Melkanoe L. Bowman on Delaware Avenue.
In January, prosecutors tried to have Clinkscale’s bond revoked after the Community Corrections Association reported there were multiple occasions in December when Clinkscale could not be found while on electronically monitored house arrest. Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court denied the request.
One month before Reeder’s and Teague’s deaths, Judge Durkin terminated Clinkscale’s electronic monitoring device as a condition of his bond.
Ryan McGee, 22, of Superior Street, Brandon T. Clinkscale, 24, of Selma Avenue, and Charles Richardson, 24, of Alameda Avenue, also were charged with murder, felonious assault and improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation in Bowman’s 2009 death. Bowman was shot in the head, and a 6-year-old boy across the street was hit in the left foot by a bullet as he slept.
Charges against Richardson were dismissed in 2010.