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5 minutes with mayor

YOUNGSTOWN

Mayor John A. McNally’s next monthly “Five Minutes with the Mayor” is Tuesday, starting at 5 p.m., in the mayor’s office at city hall, 26 S. Phelps St.

Victim identified

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who was shot to death on the East Side on Friday afternoon has been identified as Xavier L. Vega, 28. A police report does not list his address. The report says Vega was found unresponsive on the ground at 5:35 p.m. in front of a house in the 300 block of South Jackson Street. He was taken away by the Mahoning County coroner’s office. A police captain on duty Saturday afternoon said that to his knowledge, there are no suspects yet in the homicide.

Shooting victim ID’d

YOUNGSTOWN

The victim of a drive-by shooting Friday night on the South Side has been identified as Amos Dothard Jr., 18, of Plazaview Court in Youngstown. Dothard was walking in the 800 block of East Philadelphia Avenue around 8:30 p.m. when he was shot, police said.

Police found a large crowd around Dothard, who was lying in the grass with a gunshot wound to the head, a police report said.

He was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital in critical condition. No update on his condition was available Saturday.

A captain on duty Saturday afternoon said there are no suspects in the case yet.