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Shooting victim’s sister hurt in crash
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Tragedy has again struck the Bess family of Kenwood Avenue Southwest.
The family lost 17-year-old Zeboney Bess on July 15 to violence when she was struck in the head by a gunshot and killed on Hamilton Street Southwest.
Early Saturday, Zeboney’s sister, Zandra Bess, 26, also of Kenwood Avenue Southwest, was severely injured in a single-car crash on Youngstown Road near Bonnie Brae Avenue, according to Warren police.
Zandra Bess was a passenger in a car driven by Artrez L. Louis, 23, of Bonnie Brae Avenue Southeast that went out of control and hit a building at 1:43 a.m.
Zandra Bess was removed from the vehicle and taken to St. Joseph Health Center, where her condition was not available Monday afternoon.
Louis was charged with failure to control, but other charges are possible. His blood-alcohol level was tested at .088, above the legal limit of .08, police reported.
In other weekend incidents, two 17-year-old boys were charged with aggravated robbery.
They’re accused of robbing two 18-year-olds and a 16-year-old at gunpoint at the Avon Oaks apartments, in the 500 block of Southern Boulevard, at 6:58 p.m. Friday.
The victims, all males, were sitting in a vehicle waiting for a friend to come out when the boys approached the car on the driver’s side, and one of them put a revolver to the driver’s head and demanded money.
The suspects took the driver’s wallet and iPhone and fled.
The victims followed the suspects in their car, saw the suspects get into a car and followed the car to the Kmart on Parkman Road, where police from Warren and Warren Township found one of the suspects walking on Southern Boulevard with another male.
Police found the second suspect in woods near Kmart and apprehended him on Linda Drive.
Police located a handgun containing six rounds of ammunition. The suspects were taken to the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center.
A 17-year-old Swallow Street Southwest girl was shot in the mouth late Saturday while sitting on the porch of a house in the 2900 block of Linda Drive Northwest where she was visiting about 10:30 p.m.
The girl, who was released from Akron Children’s Hospital after being treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, said she saw an adult male in the rear yard of a house nearby fire gunshots.
The girl felt her mouth get hot afterward, she said.
Police investigated but made no arrests.