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City police have person of interest in killing of teen
By Ed Runyan
YOUNGSTOWN
Police have a “strong person of interest” in the Friday afternoon shootout between two factions of people that killed a 17-year-old Youngstown boy.
They did not identify him.
Investigators are continuing to interview witnesses in the 2 p.m. shooting at the corner of Evergreen Avenue and Summer Street.
Police believe the 2 p.m. shooting was a follow-up to an argument a couple of days earlier involving the same individuals, Capt. Rod Foley said.
Though multiple people were shooting at one another, no other injuries were reported in the shooting that killed the teen, Foley said.
Police arrested an 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old man in the case — one for discharging a firearm in the city limits and one for misconduct at an emergency.
A Youngstown police report says the victim was found inside the house at 1916 Summer St., face down in a pool of blood.
A handgun and shotgun were recovered from the bushes behind 1912 Summer, which is a vacant house, police said. Another handgun was found in the garage at 1912 Summer.
The teen’s death is the city’s eighth homicide of 2011. At this time in 2010, there were 15 homicides.
Police are also continuing to investigate the 2:30 p.m. Friday shooting on the South Side, possibly at the corner of Pasadena Avenue and Gibson Street, which resulted in multiple gunshot wounds to a second man.
That shooting took place about two miles west of the first South Side shooting.
The victim, Demetrius A. Lockett, 25, of East Florida Avenue, was not cooperative Friday night when police tried to talk to him at St. Elizabeth Health Center. He had serious injuries and went into surgery Friday night, Foley said. Police hope to talk to him again Monday.
Lockett was inside a vehicle that contained several people, police said. The victim’s car and another car, which also contained several people, were involved in the shooting, Foley said.
It doesn’t appear that anyone in the victim’s vehicle fired any shots, though a handgun was found on the dashboard of the car when police examined it later, Foley said.
Lockett told police he didn’t know the location of the shooting, only that a man about 25 years old shot him after asking for a cigarette.
Meanwhile, Lawrence A. Davis, 57, of Lenox Avenue on the South Side suffered a serious accidental gunshot wound to the stomach at 7:57 p.m. Friday while moving items from his home.
Davis was loading boxes from the house onto a trailer when he dropped a box onto the trailer and a .22-caliber rifle inside the box went off. Police arrived to find Davis with a gunshot wound below his navel.
Police found the rifle inside a box wrapped in a curtain and a bullet hole in the curtain. Davis said the rifle belonged to him.
St. Elizabeth Health Center confirmed that Davis was there but would not give his condition Saturday night.