Warren house where woman found dead demolished

WARREN

Judy McClellan, who found her granddaughter dead on the front porch of the house at 317 Scott St. NE on Sept. 23, watched as an excavator took a swipe at the porch and ripped it away in seconds.

“We are grateful to see it ripped off,” she said. Within a few hours, the entire house had been knocked down, thanks to a discussion between several Trumbull County and Warren officials that enabled the demolition to be fast-tracked.

McClellan said she thinks her granddaughter, Carly Ginnicks, 32, of Warren, died of a drug overdose. Ginnicks had been missing for more than a week when McClellan and her daughter went looking for her at vacant houses. They found her at the second one they searched.

Thanks to Sheriff Thomas Altiere and several city officials, equipment the sheriff’s office acquired from military surplus, along with laborers from the county engineer’s office and city, were applied to the demolition project to remove the blighted structure.

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