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Authorities probe elderly man’s shooting by police
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation has begun an investigation into the Sunday evening shooting of a 79-year-old Parkman Road Northwest man by Warren police.
Michael P. Lardis, 79, of the 400 block of Parkman Road, was in a room on the surgical floor of ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital on Monday afternoon.
A hospital spokeswoman said she was not able to provide his condition, but police said Lardis had suffered nonlife-threatening injuries from two gunshot wounds — one to the abdomen and one to the thigh.
Police were called at 10:01 p.m. to 406 Parkman Road, where Lardis was alleged to have pointed a weapon at his neighbor, a 33-year-old woman, police said.
Questions to the police department’s spokesman and police chief regarding the incidents that led up to Lardis’s being shot went unanswered Monday afternoon because both men were unavailable.
The Warren Police report of the incident says the case involves an alleged act of aggravated menacing, a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison, but as of late Monday, no charges had been filed against Lardis.
Lardis has been charged with the same offense twice since 2009, according to records from Warren Municipal Court.
In August 2011, Lardis was convicted of aggravated menacing involving a 42-year-old woman and her 16-year-old daughter, who said they were walking on Parkman Road, when Lardis committed the crime.
Lardis was convicted of the offense, fined $250 and placed on five years’ probation and ordered to surrender his carrying- concealed-weapons permit and was ordered not to have any weapons.
Lardis was also charged with the same offense in 2009, but that charged was dismissed when the alleged victim didn’t show up at a hearing to testify.