Homicide ruling

Homicide ruling

WARREN

Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, Trumbull County coroner, has ruled that Donyell Johnson, 40, of Basswood Avenue in Howland, died as a result of stab wounds to the neck “accompanied by multiple gunshot wounds to the head.”

He ruled that the death was a homicide.

Dr. Germaniuk declined to talk further about his ruling, citing an ongoing investigation.

Johnson was found dead Wednesday after a girlfriend called 911, saying she feared for his safety because she could see blood on the walls inside the house.

Police say they believe Johnson had given the girlfriend an incorrect name, because she knew him as Martin Reed. He used eight or more different names, police said.

Tree donated

youngstown

Richard Greenwalt of Lansing Avenue donated a 25-foot blue spruce to the city for its Christmas tree. It is scheduled to arrive downtown at 11 a.m. today. Diamond Steel Construction will donate time and equipment to assist the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation staff to remove and transport the tree to Central Square in downtown.

Seeking 3rd term

YOUNGSTOWN

Judge Mary DeGenaro is seeking her third term as judge at the 7th District Court of Appeals. Judge DeGenero filed her petitions Monday to run in 2012.

The court is based in Youngstown and serves Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning, Monroe and Noble counties. She has served on the court since 2000.

Judge DeGenaro, of Poland, served as the presiding/administrative judge for the 7th District for the 2007-08 term. She also serves on the Board of Bar Examiners for the Ohio Appellate Practice Specialty Certification and the Ohio Judicial Conference Ethics and Professionalism Committee.

Store robbed

Girard

A robber got away with $130 Sunday from Dollar General at 501 Churchill Road after simulating to cashiers that he had a gun in his sweater pocket.

According to police records, the robber was a white male wearing a blue bandanna and a black hooded sweatshirt.

He had departed the scene by the time police arrived, the report said.

Police later found a black hooded sweatshirt in the grass in front of Prospect Intermediate School less than a mile away at 700 East Prospect St.

Book signings

POLAND

Two Mahoning Valley authors will sign copies of their work Dec. 1 at Poland Library, 311 S. Main St.

The event will feature Janet L. DeCesare, of Mineral Ridge, author of “Ticked Off,” a novel about her 12-year battle with chronic Lyme disease.

Michele Gianetti of Canfield also will be at the event. Gianetti is the author of “I Believe in You; A Mother and Daughter’s Special Journey,” which chronicles her daughter’s experience with dyspraxia and sensory- processing disorder.

The book signing will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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