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Struthers aggravated menacing case set for jury trial
By Sarah Lehr
struthers
An aggravated-menacing case in which a city man purportedly threatened a group of children with a gun is set to go to trial before a jury May 25.
Gust Mamounis, 39, on Tuesday, through his lawyers, waived his right to the pretrial hearing Tuesday afternoon in Struthers Municipal Court before a visiting judge. He did not appear. An attorney representing Mamounis declined to comment.
Mamounis faces a disorderly-conduct charge and several counts of aggravated menacing.
Police arrested Mamounis on June 18, 2015, after he purportedly made threats against a group of pre-teen and teenage children while following them with a loaded gun and using racial slurs.
An iPhone video submitted to police shows a physical altercation between Mamounis’ daughter and another girl, who is white, in front of Mamounis’ Hawthorne Street home.
The video shows Mamounis leaving his home while the girls were fighting. In the video, Mamounis is shown holding a handgun, which he had removed from its holster.
Though the video cut out soon after Mamounis left the house, multiple parties told police he began to follow the girl who had been fighting with his daughter, along with a group of other children along Elm Street, while holding the gun and making threats, according to police reports. Two of the children were black, police said.
Mamounis also made a 911 call himself in which he made threats against the children and repeatedly used the N-word.