Suspect is sought in shooting

By Ed Runyan | May 17, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

Ronald J. Pugh Jr.

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 SW, the Hampshire House Apartments, at 4:30 a.m. 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 rapes occurred in Warren, prosecutors said.

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

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

In Mahoning County, he was convicted of burglary and sentenced to 10 months in prison in February 2010. He was convicted in 2006 of attempted receiving stolen property and theft and sentenced to two years in prison.

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

Cheryl Saffold, Warren’s 6th Ward council person, has called a press conference for 9 a.m. today in the driveway of the Hampshire House Apartments to discuss community concerns regarding the apartment complex.

Sharmaine Delaney, 20, of 1380 Fifth St. SW, also in the Hampshire House apartments, 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 NW, 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.