Trial delayed for Youngstown man charged with 2 homicides

YOUNGSTOWN — A man who was to go on trial today in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for two separate homicides in November 2011 had the trial continued.

Judge John Durkin continued the trial against 23-year-old Hakeem Henderson of Salem and San Diego, in order to study motions filed by both prosecutors and defense attorneys.

Defense attorneys J. Gerald Ingram and Ryan Ingram have asked Judge Durkin to have a hearing to determine if two hearsay statements prosecutors asked last week to use in the trial should be allowed in.

Henderson is one of three men accused in the deaths of 23-year-old Adam Christian, who was shot and killed at 1477 Woodcrest Ave. on Nov. 13, 2011, and Raymond “Remel” Hayes, 20, who was found shot to death in a sparsely populated area of the East Side near Gerwig and Knapp avenues on Nov. 16, 2011.

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