Man jailed in death of 78-year-old woman

Man jailed in death of 78-year-old woman

DAYTON

Authorities have jailed a man on murder charges after he called 911 to report finding a 78-year-old woman dead in his home.

Police say John Mukes called 911 Sunday morning to say he found the woman and that she appeared to have been beaten. He said he didn’t know how she became injured.

Montgomery County authorities have identified the woman as Mary Hinesmon of Dayton. Her cause of death remains under investigation.

Mukes was being held Monday in the county jail. The 52-year-old man was also charged with resisting arrest.

Youngstown man faces charges in threat to kill

YOUNGSTOWN

A Bonnie Brae Avenue man is in the Mahoning County jail after police said he threatened to kill a woman and set fire to a home she was in early Monday morning.

Gary Brown, 51, is expected to be arraigned in municipal court today on four counts of aggravated arson and a single count of aggravated menacing.

Police were called to his home at about 5:20 a.m. and found a fire inside and a window punched out. An officer managed to extinguish the fire with an extinguisher he had in his cruiser.

A woman in the home said she had been arguing with Brown and he threatened to go to his car, get a gun and kill her and himself. He then punched the window and lit a fire, but reports did not say how the fire was lit.

Staff and wire reports