16-year-old indicted on murder charge in Youngstown

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A 16-year-old boy has been indicted by the Mahoning County grand jury on a murder charge with a firearm specification in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy last summer.

After having been bound over from juvenile court, Shonqualin Hendrix of Midland Avenue was indicted Thursday in the July 29 death of Braylen Collins, of West Glenaven Avenue.

Collins was shot at Evergreen Avenue and Summer Street on the city’s South Side and died shortly thereafter in St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Hendrix, who had been a Chaney High School student, was arrested at a house on Edwards Street and charged with his murder several days later. If he’s convicted as charged, Hendrix faces 18 years to life in prison.

City police arrested Delord M. Green, 19, of Summer Street, at the shooting scene on a charge of tampering with evidence. Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court put Green on three years’ probation last month after he pleaded guilty to that charge.

Rod Foley, who was chief of detectives when the shooting occurred and is now city police chief, said he believed the shooting stemmed from a fight between Hendrix and Green the evening before the shooting, but he wasn’t sure whether Collins was the intended victim.