Man indicted in 2014 shooting of girl, 9

Man indicted in 2014 shooting of girl, 9

YOUNGSTOWN

City detectives believe they have solved the case of a 9-year-old shot while doing her homework.

It’s been nearly a year since a bullet hit third-grader Kathryn Carter in the chest as she sat at the dining room table, according to a report from 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

On Thursday, a Mahoning County grand jury indicted Devante Scott, 20, on four counts of felonious assault and firing into the East Judson Street house.

Police arrested Scott shortly after Kathryn was shot last April but never charged him in connection with the shooting.

The Williamson Elementary School student spent five full days in the hospital recovering from the gunshot wound.

Charged in burglary

BOARDMAN

A Struthers man faces a second-degree felony charge after he was arrested in a burglary Thursday.

Police say Frank Vetrano, 27, of Perry Street, broke into a Lealand Avenue house in October and took a laptop, jewelry and other items, totaling close to $2,000 worth of property.

Vetrano was free on bond pending an appearance in Mahoning County Area Court here.

Several hurt in crash

VERNON

The Ohio Highway Patrol is investigating a head-on crash that injured several people.

According to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV, two vehicles collided on Orangeville Kinsman Road just north of state Route 88 about 4 p.m. Thursday.

First-responders on the scene found that among the victims was John Gilmore, 67, of Greenville, Pa., who was trapped in the wreckage for nearly an hour before they were able to remove him.

Brian Rossi, 42, of Burghill, was injured as were two children age 11 and 7 who were his passengers. Their conditions and the children’s names were not known at press time. They were all taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

The patrol said Rossi’s SUV was northbound on Orangeville-Kinsman Road when the vehicle went left of center and struck Gilmore’s pickup truck head-on.

Brown gets hearing

NEW CASTLE, PA.

A boy charged with fatally shooting his father’s pregnant fiancee when he was 11 is getting a hearing to determine whether he deserves a new juvenile-court trial, according to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV

Attorneys for Jordan Brown, 17, spent a little more than an hour Thursday morning inside a Lawrence County courtroom asking a judge to either acquit the teen in the 2009 shooting death of his father’s pregnant fiancee, Kenzie Houk, and her unborn son, or at least grant Jordan a new trial in juvenile court because of insufficient evidence linking him to the crime.

In December, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court raised questions about the evidence used to convict Jordan in juvenile court. His attorneys contend there wasn’t enough evidence to find him delinquent, which is the juvenile-court equivalent of guilty.

Author to speak

YOUNGSTOWN

Lois Gibbs, an environmental-justice advocate and author, will speak at 7 p.m. next Friday at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown, 1105 Elm St., about fracking and safe drinking water.

The event, sponsored by Frackfree Mahoning Valley, is free.

Gibbs led efforts in the late 1970s to bring national attention to chemicals leaking from a toxic-waste dump in Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls. She serves as the founder and executive director for the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, a national nonprofit.