Sentencing reset for Struthers man accused of threatening children with gun

Staff report

STRUTHERS

Sentencing for a city man accused of threatening a group of children with a gun has been reset for Aug. 2.

Police arrested Gust Mamounis, 39, in June 2015. He is charged with aggravated menacing and disorderly conduct.

Witnesses told police Mamounis had followed a group of preteen and teenage children, some of whom were black, with a loaded gun while using racial slurs and threatening to kill them.

Police also reviewed an iPhone video in which Mamounis appears to brandish a gun at the juveniles.

Mamounis told police the incident began with a fight between a girl, who is white, and Mamounis’ daughter outside a Hawthorne Street home. In a 911 call, Mamounis repeatedly uses the N-word and threatens to shoot the children if police do not intervene.

Mamounis originally was set for sentencing Tuesday. He has agreed to waive his right to a trial.

Back in 2003, Mamounis pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and was found guilty.

A Struthers judge sentenced him to a year’s probation, according to online court records.