'Pistol Pete' remains jailed in connection with shooting

October 31, 2016 at 2:47p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — A suspect in the shooting of a teen Thursday at a home in the 400 block of Parkcliffe Avenue is in the Mahoning County jail on a $20,000 bond after his arraignment Monday in municipal court.

Kenneth “Pistol Pete” Johnson III, 29, was arraigned before municipal court Magistrate Anthony Sertick on a charge of felonious assault and a probation violation.

He was arrested at about 11:15 a.m. Friday by U.S. Marshals in a home in the 2700 block of Griselda Avenue.

Police found the teenager at about 5:35 p.m. Thursday bleeding from a bullet wound to the thigh. An officer worked to stop the bleeding until paramedics could take him to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.