YSU shooting trial gets under way Tuesday

YOUNGSTOWN — Opening statements will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the jury trial of Columbus Jones Jr., 23, of Cambridge Avenue, in the shooting death of Jamail Johnson, a 25-year-old Youngstown State University senior, and the wounding of 11 other people at a house party on Indiana Avenue near the YSU campus on Feb. 6, 2011.

The trial is before Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Jones is charged with murder and 11 counts of felonious assault with firearm specifications and discharging a gun at or into a habitation.