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Brookfield police say shooting victim remains in critical condition
By Ed Runyan
BROOKFIELD
Police say the woman who suffered multiple gunshot wounds Monday morning at her Ulp Street home in Masury remains in critical condition at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital after surgery.
Police hope to speak to her about the shooting when she recovers more.
Her live-in boyfriend, Marvin Jules, 33, was arraigned Tuesday in Eastern District Court here, with Judge Robert Platt entering a not guilty plea for him to felonious assault. The judge refused to allow Jules to make bond pending his next hearing Thursday.
If convicted, Jules could get eight years in prison.
Mercer County, Pa., court records indicate that Jules was convicted of misdemeanor criminal offenses three times there from 2008 to 2011 for incidents in Sharon.
In December 2008, Jules pleaded guilty to misdemeanor making terroristic threats, endangering others and two counts of tampering with evidence and was sentenced in February 2009 to several months in the Mercer County jail.
According to the Sharon Herald newspaper and court records, Jules was arrested in September 2008 for purportedly stabbing Isaac Williams, 20, of Farrell, Pa., when Williams intervened in a domestic dispute involving Jules and a woman. Williams suffered a 1-inch puncture wound.
Jules had been arguing with a woman he had been staying with at the Willow Village apartments in Sharon, and her son, DeAndre Campbell, tried to step in, and then Williams tried to intervene, police said. Jules was at the time described as being from Philadelphia, Pa.
A jury in Mercer County found him guilty in October 2010 of receiving stolen property, and he was sentenced to a term of nine to 18 months in the Mercer County jail.
In January 2011, he was sentenced to 196 days to 23 months in jail after being convicted of attempted theft from a motor vehicle in Sharon.
Neighbors on Ulp Street identified the victim in Monday’s shooting as Lynda Campbell, 54, who is also named in a Brookfield police report from May 10, 2014, as being in a domestic dispute with Jules at the Ulp Street address. Both lived there at the time.
Police recovered the weapon Monday afternoon that Jules said he threw in a field after the shooting.
Members of the Trumbull County Metal Detecting Club actually found the gun, which police said is the one that was used in the shooting. The metal-detecting club was called after police were unsuccessful in finding the gun using a police dog from Warren earlier in the day.
Jesse James of Cortland, past president of the club, said he and four other members searched a field beside and behind the couple’s home for about 15 minutes before finding the weapon.
Ironically, they were not able to use their metal detection equipment to find it because of the high weeds. “We were just plain lucky,” he said.
Brookfield police called them because club members helped two other local police departments recently that needed to find metal objects related to guns.
They helped look for a bullet casing in Hubbard but didn’t find it and found a bullet in Springfield Township, Mahoning County, James said.