Warren man gets 10 years for 2012 execution-style killing

Staff report

WARREN

Investigators used DNA evidence from a pair of gloves left two doors away from a July 2012 crime scene to connect Lamont Salter, 26, of Warren to the execution-style killing of Delshawn Scott, 36.

On Monday, the day Salter was scheduled to go on trial on charges of aggravated murder in Scott’s death, Salter pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter, as well as charges of kidnapping and aggravated burglary.

Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced Salter to 10 years in prison with credit for one year served while also serving a five-year sentence in another case out of Warren from 2012.

Salter has three years left on the five-year sentence for robbery and weapons charges from May 2012.

Salter pleaded guilty Monday to being one of four masked men who fired assault rifles at Scott on July 9, 2012, killing him near the entrance to a house on Charles Avenue Southeast.

Scott was a Detroit native with a Detroit prison record for armed robbery. He had not lived at the Charles Avenue residence very long, police said.

The kidnapping and aggravated-burglary charges stem from Salter and the three others kidnapping a woman at gunpoint about 1 a.m. as she visited a relative’s house on Charles, close to where Scott lived.

The woman said she saw the men with “big guns” near her relative’s house, which had been ransacked, and they pointed their guns at her and told her to knock on the door at Scott’s house. The aggravated burglary stems from the break-in at the house, said Chris Becker, assistant county prosecutor.

The men knocked, then opened fire on Scott when he answered the door, she said. The Charles Avenue home had 11 gunshot holes in it from assault rifles, police said.

Police recovered two gloves two doors away from the residence where Scott was killed. They appeared to have been left there “as if fleeing from the scene,” Becker said.

The DNA in the gloves matched DNA from Salter that had been collected when Salter went to prison in December 2012, Becker said. Warren police say the case remains open in hopes of charging the others involved.