Wednesday, September 21, 2016
YOUNGSTOWN
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A man was shot and killed in a house in the 1500 block of Kennsington in Youngstown.
A man, believed by police to be in his 20s, was shot and killed about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday inside a house in the 1500 block of Kensington Avenue at the intersection of Tacoma Avenue on the North Side.
If the coroner rules the death a homicide, it would be the 15th in Youngstown this year, the same number of homicides in the city by this time in 2015.
Police Capt. Brad Blackburn, chief of detectives, said the name of the victim was being withheld pending notification of relatives.
The victim was shot inside the house, but Blackburn would not discuss the nature of the wound or if there were multiple wounds or multiple shots fired. Neither did he reveal the type of weapon used. He said it was not a drive-by shooting.
Police and a medical examiner from the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office spent nearly two hours examining the interior and exterior of the two-story house before the body was brought out on a gurney about 7:10 p.m.
Blackburn said police looked at security cameras on the outside of the house to determine if they were operating and contain evidence pertinent to the investigation.
He said police had no suspect or suspects as of late Tuesday, but they were to question two witnesses believed to have information about the shooting.
During the police investigation at the scene, between 50 and 75 people gathered to watch. They were subdued except for a young woman who broke into sobs when the victim’s body was brought out of the house and driven away.