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Weekend incidents injure two women
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Shakir A. Provitt, 27, of Sixth Street Southwest is charged with aggravated burglary for purportedly breaking into the home of his child’s mother while she was sleeping and hitting her in the back of the head. The woman suffered apparently minor injuries.
A Warren Municipal Court judge Tuesday ordered Provitt to be held in the Trumbull County Jail without eligibility to make bond. He returns to court 2 p.m. Monday.
Police were called to the 27-year-old woman’s home in the 300 block of Genesee Avenue Northeast at 4:50 a.m. Saturday, got to the victim’s bedroom and heard a door slam. An officer saw Provitt run out the back door and try to get into a car, but the officer took him into custody while pointing a stun gun at him.
Provitt and the victim have a 4-year-old child together, but Provitt has no belongings in the home or keys and hasn’t been there in the past two weeks, police said.
Meanwhile, Andre Owens Sr., 38, of Burton Street Southeast is charged with carrying a concealed weapon, being a felon in possession of a firearm, receiving stolen property and cocaine possession after a disturbance on South Feederle Street Southeast.
A judge ordered him held in the county jail without eligibility to make bond until his next hearing at 2 p.m. Monday. Police said Owens was arrested after they responded to South Feederle at 2:30 a.m. Monday for a suspect with a handgun.
A 16-year-old boy from Porter Street Northeast and a 15-year-old boy from West Avenue Northwest were arrested on charges of aggravated menacing. A 35-year-old Hunter Street Northwest man reported the two boys and a third one threatened him with guns at 7:15 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Parkman Road and Ward Avenue Northwest. The two boys were found and arrested on Hillsdale Drive Northwest.
A Warren police report says two other boys, ages 15 and 17, were also victims in the incident.
In another recent crime, a 52-year-old Homewood Avenue Southeast woman reported that two young black males wearing black hooded sweatshirts, gloves and masks robbed her as she walked in the 1500 block of Homewood at 10 a.m. Friday.
One of the males hit her on the side of her head with a hammer, she said. She fell to the ground, and they searched through her purse and then left it behind and ran off, the woman said.