Police seek Youngstown man in connection with Warren homicide

WARREN

Warren police are on the lookout for Ronald J. Pugh Jr., 26, of East Philadelphia Ave., Youngstown, wanted in the Sunday morning shooting death of DeAngelo McCoy, 24, of Third Street Southwest.

Police were called to an apartment at 1339 Fifth Street Southwest, the Hampshire House Apartments at 4:30 a.m. for a shooting.

McCoy was taken by friends to Trumbull Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Sgt. Jeff Cole of the Warren Police Department said no information was available on the reasons why police suspect Pugh in the death.

McCoy was sentenced to three years in prison in June 2006 after pleading guilty to three counts of rape involving an underage girl between summer 2005 and February 2006, when the girl was 12 or 13 years old.

The girl told McCoy she was 16 because she wanted to be with him, McCoy’s attorney, Anthony Consoldane said back in 2006.

Pugh has no record in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court and one misdemeanor assault charge in Warren Municipal Court from November 2010.

This marks the third homicide of 2011 in Warren and the second one involving a gunshot victim in Hampshire House apartments.

Sharmaine Delaney, 20, of 1380 Fifth St. SW, was found shot to death in her bed early Jan. 31. Police have not made any arrests in that case.

The Feb. 3 death of Kevin Gadley, 36, of Newton Falls, in the Paradise Bar, 2261 North Park Avenue, was ruled “homicide by heart attack,” and no charges have been filed in that case either.

Gadley had an underlying heart problem that produced a heart attack during a fight at the bar, Trumbull County Coroner Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk ruled.