Homicide ruled in city’s lastest shooting death

The Mahoning County Coroner’s office has ruled Friday’s death of Adrian Johnson, 38, of East Boston Avenue, a homicide, after an autopsy today by Dr. Joseph S. Ohr, forensic pathologist and deputy coroner.

Johnson died instantly of multiple gunshot wounds to the head, the coroner ruled. He was pronounced dead after the car he was driving crashed at 2:38 p.m. into a porch ramp and a tree in the 100 block of St. Louis Avenue on the city’s South Side, police said.