Shooting suspect also may have been involved in Youngstown robberies

YOUNGSTOWN — A suspect in a shooting on the fringes of downtown Monday afternoon is also a suspect in several aggravated robberies in the city, a prosecutor said.

Algernon Franklin, 23, of Redgate Lane, was arraigned today in Youngstown Municipal Court on a charge of attempted murder for the shooting of a 19-year-old man about 1 p.m. in a 224 W. Wood St. parking lot.

Magistrate Anthony Sertick set Franklin’s bond at $150,000.

During the arraignment, which was via video hookup from the Mahoning County jail, city Prosecutor Dana Lantz told Sertick the man Franklin is accused of shooting was a friend Franklin was attempting to rob. Franklin is also a suspect in several other aggravated robberies in the Youngstown area.

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