Man arraigned for shooting last week

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who was arrested in a shooting earlier this month is in the Mahoning County jail on $75,000 bond.

Keith Black, 27, of Seneca Avenue, was arraigned in municipal court Monday before Judge Elizabeth Kobly on a charge of felonious assault. Judge Kobly set his bond at $75,000.

A preliminary hearing is set for Monday.

Black is charged in the shooting of a 19-year-old man early Aug. 14. Police were called about 2:25 a.m. to the intersection of East Judson Avenue and Southern Boulevard, where a 19-year-old man told them he had been shot several times while in his car.

Black was arrested by U.S. marshals Friday at a home on Cambridge Avenue, said Chief of Detectives Capt. Brad Blackburn.

Police still are not sure of a motive, Blackburn said.

Assistant Prosecutor Jeffrey Moliterno told Judge Kobly that Black has past felonious assault convictions in 2004, 2005 and 2007. He was a juvenile in the first two cases.

He also faced three counts of felonious assault in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in a 2013 incident, but those charges were dismissed in February at the request of the state because of insufficient evidence and also because the victims in the case refused to cooperate with authorities, according to court records.