City police continue probe of homicide

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Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown police say they have a couple of leads in the city’s second homicide of 2012.

William T. Patterson, 60, of West Evergreen Avenue was found still breathing in his home with several wounds to his head about 3 a.m. Saturday, police said.

Patterson was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center where medics found bullet fragments in his head during a scan and where he later died.

Lt. John Kelty of the Youngstown Police Department said the investigation “is still in the very early stages.”

“There was no forced entry, and that leads us to believe the two knew each other,” Kelty said.

A 28-year-old woman who said she had been living with Patterson for the past six months called police. The woman said she was out of town and returned about 1 a.m. Saturday to find some windows and a table smashed, according to reports.

Police said she told them Patterson injected heroin into his stomach, and she left for a while, returning about 2 a.m. and finding the rear door open but nothing disturbed or missing.

The woman said she wiped blood from Patterson’s nose for about one hour and then called police and emergency medics, police said.