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Suspect in early-Friday shooting in Warren arrested and charged with felonious assault
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Police arrested Ryan D. Owens, 25, of First Street Southwest, in the early Friday shooting of Brian K. Henry II, 21, of Milton Street Southeast.
Owens was booked into the Trumbull County Jail late Friday afternoon. He is charged through Warren Municipal Court with felonious assault.
Police say Owens shot Henry multiple times at an apartment on Duke Street. Henry is in stable but critical condition at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
Police Capt. Rob Massucci said witnesses indicated the shooting took place at a gathering that was marking the third anniversary of a single-car accident that killed six Warren teens on Niles Warren River Road just south of the city.
Henry, of Milton Street Southeast, was one of two people who survived the accident, but police say they don’t know how the anniversary gathering might be related to the shooting.
It appears 30 people or more were attending the gathering. Anyone with information is asked to call the police department at 330-841-2656.
The gunfire occurred at the Fairview Gardens apartments at 12:49 a.m. Henry’s friends drove him to St. Joseph Warren Hospital. He was then taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, police said.
A 911 call indicated that arguing and gunshots were heard in the area of the shooting before two cars sped away.
Henry was 18 and the front-seat passenger in a sport utility vehicle driven by Alexis Cayson, 19, of Warren, when it crashed into a guard rail and flipped into a pond on Niles Warren River Road on March 10, 2013.
The eight teens were trapped upside down in 5 feet of cold water.
Henry and Asher C. Lewis, then 15 and from Howland, escaped from the vehicle and went to a house on Burton Street Southeast to get help, but the six other teens – Cayson and five boys – drowned.
The boys were Kirklan Behner, 15; Daylan Ray, 15; Andrique Bennett, 14; Brandon Murray, 14; and Ramone White, 15.
Henry was indicted later in March 2013 on a federal weapons charge dating back to 2012 and was later sentenced to three years’ probation and six months electronically monitored house arrest.
He also was indicted in county common pleas court in March 2013 on a 2012 cocaine-possession charge, but he completed drug court in late 2014, and the charge was dismissed.