Coroner rules death a homicide

Staff report

WARREN

Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, Trumbull County coroner, has ruled that Sharmaine Delaney’s death on Monday was a homicide.

Delaney, 20, of Fifth Street Southwest, was found dead of a single gunshot wound to the head about 8 a.m. She had been dead for up to 12 hours, police said.

Delaney, in an interview with The Vindicator in December, said she had come to Warren three years ago from Cleveland.

At the time she was commenting on the deaths of her sister, Kimberly Delaney, 18, and her cousin, Victoria Jordan, 20, in a car accident in Cleveland.

Sharmaine Delaney said her sister had come to Warren from Cleveland during the summer of 2010 from Cleveland, and her cousin had come to Warren from Cleveland about seven years earlier.

The women’s car had gone out of control on ice at 2:40 a.m. Dec. 5 and collided with a Dodge Durango. Both women were pronounced dead at the scene.

At the time of the interview, Sharmaine Delaney was hoping to raise enough money to help with burial expenses for the women.

“We just want them to have a respectable and decent burial,” Sharmaine said.

Sharmaine Delaney’s death marks the first homicide in Warren since a double homicide in May 2010.