Body found Saturday is the city's 14th homicide of 2015


YOUNGSTOWN — Police say a body in the back of a vacant North Side house spotted by a mailman Saturday is the city's 14th homicide of 2015.

Chief of Detectives Capt. Brad Blackburn said the man's body was found about 12 p.m. Saturday at a vacant home in the 100 block of Saranac Avenue.

Blackburn said police are waiting to release the man's identity once his family positively identifies him. He did say the man is in his late 20s.

Youngstown had 19 homicides in 2014.