Probability of Warren shooting victim regaining vision in eye is good, detective says

Staff report

WARREN

Doctors successfully removed a BB from the eye of a 20-year-old man from Warren and Niles, and the “probability of him regaining full vision is good,” a Warren police officer said.

Detective Patrick Marsico said he still has not interviewed the victim because of the seriousness of his injury. He said that interview may occur this week.

Marsico still is investigating the attack and other crimes a group of teens is accused of committing, and he plans to file additional charges.

The victim was walking near Mahoning Avenue Northwest and the Dunstan Drive bridge early Nov. 4 when five teens in a car attacked him, some of them firing BB guns, the victim reported.

He was walking to his home near the Mahoning Avenue Giant Eagle when the teens struck him in the face and back with BBs and took his cellphone, he said.

The Giant Eagle store manager reported at about that same time that the teens stole a $24 bottle of liquor.

All five teens were apprehended during a traffic stop and charged with aggravated robbery. The oldest is 18 and charged as an adult.

The others were between 14 and 16 years old and taken to the Trumbull County Juvenile Detention Center.

Marsico said the victim had a couple of surgeries in Cleveland as a result of being shot in the eye. He is doing well but has to stay very still to prevent the eye from bleeding.