911 call reveals frantic state of shooting victim

WARREN

A 48-year-old South Street woman can be heard telling a dispatcher about 10 times “We got shot, we got shot, we got shot,” during her 911 call at 11:25 p.m. Monday.

Lisa Prater was calling from her home, 918 South Street SE, several blocks southwest of ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital and said two white males had broke into the home.

Prater said she didn’t know the two young men. “They came in the door. They were trying to rob us,” she said.

When the dispatcher asked if anyone was hurt, she said, “We got shot. Yes, he’s dying.”

She was referring to James. R. Levels, 64, of Beal Street Northwest, who police found in the bedroom of Prater’s home not moving, no pulse, not breathing.

He was later pronounced dead. Prater was taken to Trumbull Memorial, where she is being treated for her gunshot wounds. Detectives went to the hospital Tuesday morning to speak with her.

Levels’ death is the first homicide in Warren since Dec. 9, 2013, shooting death of Khaled M. Nassar, 22, of Englesson Drive Northwest, who was shot to death in the parking lot of Atlantic Beverage on Atlantic Street Northeast.

But Monday’s violence is not the first gunfire to take place at 918 South Street.

Police reports say a 41-year-old Scott Street Northeast man went to the front door of the home Oct. 22, 2013, and a man answered the door with a gun and fired it three times at him, missing as the victim fled.

On Dec. 13, 2013, Prater reported that an 18-year-old Laird Avenue Southeast man fired a handgun in the upstairs closet and threatened to kill her.

Prater was charged with felony cocaine possession Jan. 1, after police arrested her at the corner of Kenilworth Avenue and Niles Road. She was later indicted on the charge by a Trumbull County grand jury and is awaiting trial.