Warren man arraigned in Sunday morning homicide

Staff report

WARREN

Jarred Watson was arraigned Tuesday morning on a murder charge, accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s father early Sunday on Dickey Avenue Northwest.

Judge Terry Ivanchak of Warren Muncipal Court set bond at $1 million and entered an innocent plea for Watson, 28, who returns to court at 1:30 p.m. May 30 if he’s not indicted before then by a Trumbull County grand jury.

Watson, of Front Street Southwest, turned himself in to Warren police Monday afternoon after Warren police and Warren Municipal Court issued an arrest warrant for him.

He’s accused of killing George L. Myers, 57, of 148 Dickey Avenue.

Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, Trumbull County coroner, ruled that Myers died of multiple blunt- trauma injuries. His death was ruled a homicide.

Police found Myers dead of assault wounds in the backyard of 148 Dickey, where he and his daughter lived. Police found the body when they responded to a call for a disturbance and injury at 4 a.m.

Police and the coroner’s office are not saying what type of instrument caused the blunt injuries.

Myers’ death occurred during a weekend in which three people were shot in two separate incidents, a woman was cut with a knife, another was raped and another woman reported being robbed at gunpoint.

Crime continued into Monday in the Northwest area of the city, with two more women reporting home-invasion break-ins and a young man being robbed at gunpoint while walking near Parkman Road Northwest.

A Stephens Avenue Northwest woman reported that her dogs started to bark early Monday morning, apparently because someone had broken into her home between 1 and 3 a.m. and taken a laptop computer and power cord.

A woman from the 400 block of Commerce Street Northwest reported that two females and a male entered her apartment and assaulted her in the living room at 5:41 p.m. Monday. She suffered a minor injury.

At 8:30 p.m., a 19-year-old Clearwater Street Northwest man was robbed at gunpoint as he walked along a path near 1450 Southern Boulevard Northwest.

The unidentified suspect tripped on a piece of fencing as he ran up to the victim, he said. From the ground, the suspect pointed a gun at the victim and demanded money as he stood back up.

The suspect took $61, a smartphone and a handheld Nintendo game.