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Video police would not release of gas station shootout shows role of man sentenced Monday
2015 East Market Street Shootout
Video
Security camera footage of a shootout at the BP gas station on East Market Street in Warren that took place on May 1, 2015.
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
The Warren Police Department would not release a video of a daytime shootout at the BP gas station on East Market Street that injured four people last May 1, including an innocent passer-by in a car.
But the video, later provided by prosecutors, shows how the shootout unfolded.
On Monday, the final defendant in the 8 p.m. incident, John Tee Daniel, 22, of Burton Street Southeast, got 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of felonious assault and single counts of aggravated robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The video shows Daniel in the back seat of a car parked at the station’s pumps when De’Shawn L. Dorsey, 25, of Jefferson Street Southwest, parked his car behind that vehicle, got out, and looked at Daniel and the two other males inside as he walked into the gas station.
Dorsey watched out the gas station window as Daniel ran and got into Dorsey’s car. Dorsey ran back out with a gun drawn and got face-to-face with Daniel. At that point, Dorsey, Daniel and Daniel’s friends all started shooting.
Chuck Morrow, assistant Trumbull County prosecutor, said Daniel apparently obtained the weapon he fired from inside of Dorsey’s car. The keys to the car apparently were inside, he said, since Daniel drove off in the car after the shooting started.
Three of the men suffered minor wounds – Daniel to the buttocks, Dorsey to the foot and Carlos Bell, 33, of Oregon Avenue Northwest, to the arm.
One of the bullets hit a car traveling past the gas station on Laird Avenue Southeast, shattering the window. The flying glass injured a girl’s eye.
Bell pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery, three counts of felonious assault, being a felon in possession of a firearm and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and got 10 years in prison.
Dorsey pleaded guilty to felonious assault and single counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, aggravated robbery, carrying a concealed weapon and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and got eight years in prison.
Some of the charges against Dorsey involved a second incident 10 minutes after he left the BP station and robbed a woman, 24, at USA Gas Mart, 307 Pine Ave. SE, stealing $800 from her purse.
The fourth man involved in the BP shootout was Adante Mallory, 29, of Burton Street Southeast, who got 12 years in prison on convictions for aggravated robbery, three counts of felonious assault, being a felon in possession of a firearm and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle.