Alert Youngstown cops keep domestic violence fire tragedy form worsening

YOUNGSTOWN

Police Chief Robin Lees credited the actions of two veteran officers today with keeping a bad situation on the far East Side from getting worse when a man tried to fill his home with natural gas and set a fire during an argument with a woman who also lives there.

The chief said the incident highlights some of the complexities of police work, where officers are faced with fast-changing situations amid circumstances they have most likely never encountered before, even in Youngstown.

Police said the man, Ronald Magby, 56, who lives in a home in the 2900 block of Megan Circle, doused a woman there with gasoline and somehow ended up on fire himself. When officer Mike Marciano arrived for a report of a fight between a man and a woman.

Read what happened next in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.