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Warren shooting victim identified
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Police have identified the man found shot to death Thursday evening during an apparent robbery on Third Street Southwest as Domin’Que L. Hugley, 21, of Saratoga Avenue Southwest.
A second man injured by gunfire in the same episode is Tyrone L. Dorsey Jr., 21, of Northwest Boulevard Northwest. He was taken to St. Joseph Health Center with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.
Police were called to a gas station at West Market Street and Tod Avenue at 7:48 p.m. by Dorsey, who fled from the scene of the shooting on Third Street and called police.
Police were advised that a second man had been shot near Third Street and Highland and found Hugley dead in the side yard of 796 Third St.
Morris Hill, a retired Warren police officer, said Hugley has lived across the street from him since he was a small boy, and Hugley was “a fine young man” and “an athlete in the city of Warren.” He said the killing was “a despicable act.”
A resident living close to the shooting scene said she heard shots, looked out the window and saw a light- colored van fleeing the scene south with its sliding door open.
Officers found a spent bullet in the road, along with shattered vehicle glass on Hayes Avenue, just east of the location where Hugley was found.
Sgt. Jeff Cole said a man walked up to the van and tried to rob Hugley and Dorsey before gunshots were fired.
The location of Thursday’s shooting is the same as a Dec. 4 incident in which scores of bullets were fired on a Sunday afternoon, many of them from an assault rifle, but no one was injured.
The incident left a bullet hole in the home at 796 Third St. SW, as well as the hood of a car parked in front.
The gunfire also put six gunshots into a home at 810 Third St. The home at 1200 Hayes Avenue and a Mercedes-Benz vehicle parked in front were each hit by a bullet.
Detectives said there were 45 spent shell casings from an AK-47-type assault weapon found in the two locations.
Councilwoman Cheryl Saffold, D-6th, called a press conference at the police department Friday to note that this was the fifth homicide in the 6th Ward since the start of 2011. The city recorded 10 homicides in all of last year.
She called for police to increase their presence in that part of the city, install video surveillance equipment and shut down drug houses there.
Saffold said Trumbull County Sheriff Thomas Altiere told her he would be willing to provide assistance.
Police Chief Tim Bowers said the department cannot provide additional resources to the Southwest area because the amount of manpower available essentially only allows officers to respond to calls for service.
“The resource we do have is the neighbors,” Bowers said. “People have to call us with what they know.”