Youngstown records 16th homicide for 2014 early today

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are treating the death of a man found on a North Side sidewalk this morning as a homicide.

Chief of Detectives Capt. Brad Blackburn said the man, who investigators have not yet identified, was shot.

Police were called to the area about 5 a.m. after someone called 911 to report a body on the sidewalk on Guadalupe Avenue.

The man’s death is the city’s 16th homicide of the year and second in two days. A man was found shot to death about 4 a.m. Sunday at a private club on East Midlothian Boulevard.

In 2013, the city recorded 20 homicides.