Shooting death probed

Shooting death probed

NESHANNOCK, Pa.

Pennsylvania State Police are investigating the death of a 25-year-old man found shot in his residence as a homicide.

Joseph Charles Pagley III was found dead about 11:30 p.m. Sunday in his residence at 3 Kenneth Ave. by acquaintances after they were unable to contact him.

There does not appear to have been a forced entry to the home, and the incident appears to be a targeted act, as opposed to a random act of violence, police said.

State police were releasing no further information.

They asked anyone with information to call them at 724-598-2211.

Fire damages home

BOARDMAN

A street was closed for a time while crews fought a fire Monday afternoon.

Boardman firefighters were called to 204 S. Cadillac St. for a house fire at 2:58 p.m. The fire was under control in minutes and left “quite a bit of damage in the basement and living room,” said Don Kloes, Boardman assistant fire chief.

There were no injuries, and the cause of the fire is under investigation. The resident of the home was displaced by the blaze, and Boardman fire officials contacted the American Red Cross for shelter.

The road was closed during the fire so that crews could run a fire hose to a hydrant on the street.

Woman sentenced

WARREN

Ashley Raznoff, 29, of Woodbine Avenue Southeast has been sentenced to five years’ probation and a six-month driver’s license suspension for trying to sneak drugs to an inmate in the Trumbull County Jail in October 2013.

Judge Peter Kontos of common pleas court also ordered her to stay away from the jail.

Raznoff pleaded guilty in November to a felony charge of illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a governmental facility.

Man shot in arm

WARREN

A police report released Monday says a 36-year-old Maryland Street man who was shot in the arm at 5:30 a.m. Friday at a house on Oak Street Southwest reported the shots came from a vehicle passing in front of the house.

The victim said he was attending a party and was sitting in the living room when bullets came at the house from a silver Chevrolet Blazer.

The vehicle then turned around and came past the house in the other direction before firing at the house a second time.

The victim had been shot in the biceps, and his arm was covered in blood, police said.

He was taken by ambulance to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

Man shot in leg

WARREN

A 19-year-old city man was shot in the leg at 12:11 a.m. Saturday in the 1600 block of Burton Street.

The man, of a different Warren address, was shot once in the leg and was taken to VallleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital, police said.

A witness said she was standing in the kitchen when she heard four or five shots from outside the house.

She then grabbed a 7-year-old girl off the couch and carried her to the kitchen.

Police observed two bullet holes in the front of the house near the living room, they said.

Watch Night service

CAMPBELL

Community Church of God, 710 Sanderson Ave., will conduct a Watch Night service at 10 p.m. Wednesday.

New Year’s Eve event

YOUNGSTOWN

New Hope Baptist Church, 437 Albert St., will be the site of a joint New Year’s Eve service with Greater Friendship Baptist Church at 10 p.m. Wednesday. There will be praise, worship, music and prayer.

The event, previously announced on the Religion page Saturday, was scheduled at Greater Friendship but was moved to New Hope, where Kevin Crum is pastor.

Greater Friendship Baptist Church male chorus will sing, and the Rev. James C. Bowie, pastor, will speak.

Party supplies stolen

AUSTINTOWN

Police are investigating the theft of miscellaneous Batman-themed party supplies taken Saturday morning from Party On, 6000 Mahoning Ave.

According to a police report, a male and female left the store with $241 worth of the superhero-themed party supplies without paying for them and left quickly in a vehicle from the Austintown Plaza. Officers called to the store searched for the vehicle shortly before noon Saturday, but did not find it.