Teens indicted as adults in 2012 double homicide

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Two men charged as juveniles earlier this year in a 2012 double homicide were indicted as adults Thursday by a Mahoning County grand jury.

Willie Daniel Jr., 18, and Tijuan Muldrow, 19, both of the Mahoning County Justice Center, were each indicted on two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder with firearm specifications. They are charged in the June 1, 2012, deaths of 20-year-old Ibn Shakoor of McBride Street and Michael Johnson, also 20, of Katherine Street.

Daniel had been bound over to common pleas court from juvenile court earlier this month and Muldrow had yet to be bound over but waived a hearing to decide if he should be.

Shakoor and Johnson were found shot to death in a Chevrolet Tahoe that morning as they were sitting in Shakoor’s vehicle listening to music. Police said almost two dozen shots were fired at the SUV. A third man also was inside listening to music but was not injured. That is where the attempted murder charge comes in.

Daniel and Muldrow were not charged until May of this year because there were several people police needed to talk to, and some other witnesses would not come forward.

Police said Daniel and Muldrow were looking for Ryan Slade, 20, who was killed in September 2012 along with 19-year-old Keara McCullough as they were sitting in a car on Benford Lane on the East Side.

Police said one of the victims resembled Slade, and the SUV the two were in matched a vehicle Slade was known to be driving at the time.