Youngstown man's death considered homicide

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are treating the death of a man whose body was found in a South Side home Thursday morning as a homicide.

Chief of Detectives Brad Blackburn said the man was found about 8:15 a.m. by a family member at an 807 High St. home and had died from a gunshot wound. He would not release the man’s name, saying all of his family had not yet been notified of his death.

If ruled a homicide by the Mahoning County Coroner’s office, the death would be the 23rd homicide of the year in the city and the seventh within a month, four of which police have solved.

Several family members declined to speak to a reporter as they gathered outside the man’s home but they arrived steadily throughout the morning, including a woman who drove a car with a tire almost flat. She was shivering and crying in the cold.

Read more about the case in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.