'Chaos' ensued after shooting during church funeral near Midlothian, pastor said

YOUNGSTOWN

A neighbor across the street from New Vision New Day Church heard several shots where a funeral was taking place for a homicide victim.

Sitting on her porch on Everett Street, she could hear the shots quite well.

“I heard pop, pop, pop and looked out my window, and I saw a guy bend down, then get up and I heard three more shots,” she said.

No one was injured after the shots were fired at about 11:45 a.m. Thursday outside the church during services for Marquise Shelton, 23, who was killed March 20 in an Idora Avenue home. Lt. Doug Bobovnyik of the police department’s Detective Bureau said a dispute erupted between two people at the services, and one of them got a gun and fired several shots.

Bobovnyik said none of the rounds fired went into the church, but a couple of cars were struck by bullets. He said police do have a suspect and U.S. Marshals were looking for the person Thursday.

Bishop Robert G. Moore Jr., pastor of the church who was officiating the funeral for Shelton, said it was “chaos” inside the church when the gunfire broke out.

Read more of his remarks in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.