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Suspect held in Warren killings
COUPLE SUFFERED ‘VIOLENT DEATH’
WARREN
City police have one person in custody and are continuing an investigation into Saturday’s double homicide on Jefferson Street Southwest.
Police were called to 1686 Jefferson Saturday afternoon and found an older man and woman dead.
“It was a violent death,” Warren police Capt. Janice Gilmore said.
Louis Mann, 31, was in custody after Warren police located him about 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Capri Motel, 8033 E. Market St. in Howland. Mann has previous convictions in Trumbull County for burglary and receiving stolen property, according to court records.
Police said they believe he is the couple’s son.
Officers did not identify the victims Saturday night because other family had yet to be notified, but believe the couple resided at the home.
Officers also did not disclose how the couple died.
The car Mann was driving, a 1982 yellow Cadillac DeVille, belonged to the couple, police said.
Police received a call to do a welfare check on the home Saturday afternoon and found the bodies inside, Gilmore said. Officers had to gain entry through a side window, she added.
A manager at the Capri Motel said the man rented a room about 2 p.m. Saturday, and a woman was with him. The manager said she tries to give as much support to the police as possible.
About 4 p.m. Saturday, police put out an alert to all law enforcement with the suspect’s description — a 31-year-old white male, tall and weighing about 218 pounds. They called him “armed and dangerous” and said he was driving the yellow Cadillac.
Neighbors on Jefferson Street did not want to comment.
The two killings bring the total number of homicides in Warren this year to four.
The previous Warren homicides this year also occurred on the southwest side of the city.
In January, Sharmaine Delaney, 20, of 1380 Fifth St. SW, was found shot to death in her bed in the city’s Hampshire House Apartments. Police have not made any arrests in that case.
In May, DeAngelo McCoy, 24, of Third Street Southwest, also was found shot to death in the Hampshire House Apartments.
A Youngstown man, Ronald J. Pugh, is charged with McCoy’s murder.
Last year at this time, Warren had recorded four homicides.