Man shot dead in North Side home

July 8, 2016 at 12:10a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Police say whoever shot and killed a man late Wednesday in a North Side home shot him from inside the home.

Calvin Moore, 44, of Katherine Street, was found dead about 10:15 p.m. on the couch of a home in the 200 block of Norwood Avenue. His death is the city’s ninth homicide of 2016.

Moore had recently told police that he’d once been a gang member, was tired of street life and hoped to get his life together for better things.

Detective Sgt. Michael Lambert, the lead investigator, said Moore was shot several times and there were several shell casings inside the home. He said it appears whoever shot Moore was inside the home when they fired the shots.

Officers were called for a report of a man shot and when they arrived they found the front door open. They looked inside and found Moore dead on the couch, reports said.

Lambert said police had no suspects early in the investigation.

On Tuesday, Moore was in municipal court, where he waived a preliminary hearing for a felony carrying concealed weapon charge he was arrested for on June 25, allowing the case to be heard by a grand jury.

Moore was arrested about 2:20 p.m. June 25 after a car he was driving was pulled over at Wick and Rayen avenues on the North Side. An officer spotted him and knew Moore had a suspended license, according to a police report.

Moore told the officer he knew his license was suspended and he also told the officer he had a gun on his hip. The officer searched Moore and police found a 9 mm Smith & Wesson semiautomatic handgun loaded with a 15-round magazine.

Reports said that during that arrest, Moore told officer Anthony Trimble, who pulled him over, that he was tired of the street life and was looking to settle down.

Moore told Trimble he used to be in the Bloods street gang and that he added: “I’m older now, man, and honestly I just want some help getting off the streets and getting my life together. I realy want to be a working citizen and make a difference in the world, I’ve been doing this street s--- too long. I just need some help getting my life together, I know I’ve done some bad things and I’m not like that anymore, I just really want help and need help getting off of the streets.”

According to Vindicator files, Moore was shot in November 2013 by a woman whose home he tried to break into on the South Side. He also was one of four men charged in a 2002 murder on the East Side. Those charges were dismissed.

In 2015, Youngstown had 23 homicides. There were 11 homicides at this point in 2015. Of the nine homicides this year, five have been solved.