Warren Township shooting being treated as homicide

Warren Township shooting being treated as homicide

WARREN

Police have identified Valerie L. Warren, 42, of Pearl Street Southwest as the woman found dead of a gunshot wound in the parking lot of a closed business on Highland Avenue Southwest.

A newspaper carrier spotted her body face down at 6 a.m. in the darkened parking area Thursday.

Warren Township police believe her death is connected to gunshots heard at a little before 11 p.m. Wednesday.

Lt. Don Bishop said his department is treating the death as a homicide. Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, Trumbull County coroner, could not be reached Thursday afternoon regarding Warren’s cause of death.

The business where Warren’s body was found is called JAS Manufacturing, 1710 Highland Ave. It is just south of the Warren city limits and just south of the Highland Terrace apartments.

Bishop said relatives and friends of Warren had talked with her “up until the time it happened,” giving detectives what they believe is a good time line of the events leading up to her death.

Friends and family didn’t hear events involving her actual death, Bishop said, and she was not reported missing.

The lieutenant had a news conference Thursday afternoon to identity the victim. It took quite a few hours to identify her, Bishop said. Family members eventually made a positive identification.

Police recovered a shell casing, but they don’t have a suspect, Bishop said.

“Hopefully something will come up,” Bishop said, adding that anyone with information is asked to call 330-898-2159.