Man indicted for fatal accident; two others for shooting in store

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A Mahoning County grand jury Thursday indicted a man for his purported role in a fatal accident in March, and two other men in a shooting in a South Avenue store last week.

Jonathan David Shellenberger, 24, of Pembrooke Avenue in Salem, was indicted on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Shellenberger is accused of being the driver of a car that crashed about 4:25 p.m. March 24 on Garfield Road in Goshen Township between Seacrist Road and state Route 534.

Police said Shellenberger was driving west when he went off the road and hit a telephone pole. A passenger, Anthony Michael Colon, 23, was trapped in the wreckage and cut out and taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he later died.

The indictment said that Shellenberger had marijuana in his system at the time of the crash.

Also indicted on five counts of felonious assault in a shooting June 18 that wounded two people at a store in the 3200 block of South Avenue was Tyrell L. Maiden, 26, of Lucius Avenue.

Maiden is accused of following a man with whom he was arguing into the store and firing several rounds, injuring the store owner and a 12-year-old who was inside, but missing the person he was having the argument with.

He is charged with three counts of felonious assault in the injuries to the two victims and also trying to injure the person he was arguing with, along with two additional counts of felonious assault that offer alternative theories about the crime.

That person, Levert Dent, 25, of Cook Avenue, Boardman, is not charged with anything related to the shooting because even though he had a gun, police and prosecutors say he acted in self defense.

However, Dent was indicted on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon for having the gun with him and also a charge of tampering with evidence for trying to hide the fact that he had a gun.

All three are expected to be arraigned sometime next month before Common Pleas Court Judge John Durkin.