Charge filed in funeral shooting

YOUNGSTOWN — Police have filed a weapons charge against a man they say was involved in a shooting at a funeral service.

Vernon Johnson, 22, is charged in municipal court with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Police still are looking for him.

Johnson is accused of having a weapon at a March 31 funeral service for homicide victim Marquise Shelton at the New Vision New Day Church at Everett and Irma avenues in the Brownlee Woods area of the South Side.

No one was injured in the shooting at the services, which occurred when two people got into an argument inside and one person went outside to retrieve a gun and began firing. The church was not hit by gunfire, but several cars were damaged.

U.S. marshals have been looking for Johnson but have not been able to find him.

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