Struthers man sentenced after threatening children with gun, using racial slurs

Staff report

STRUTHERS

A city man was placed on two months’ probation being found guilty of charges related to his arrest last year for following a group of children around with a gun while making threats and using racial slurs.

A visiting judge sentenced Gust Mamounis, 39, on Tuesday in Struthers Municipal Court. His sentence includes mandatory mental-health treatment, a prohibition against carrying firearms and a prohibition against contact with the victims.

Mamounis pleaded no contest to reduced fourth-degree misdemeanor charges of misconduct in an emergency. The judge found him guilty.

The judge, however, dismissed one of the aggravated-menacing charges against Mamounis.

Witnesses told police Mamounis had followed a group of preteen and teenage children, some of whom were black, with a loaded gun in June 2015 while using racial slurs and threatening to kill them.

Police also reviewed an iPhone video in which Mamounis appears to brandish a gun at the juveniles.

Mamounis told police the incident began with a fight between a girl, who is white, and Mamounis’ daughter outside a Hawthorne Street home. In a 911 call, Mamounis repeatedly uses the N-word and threatens to shoot the children if police do not intervene.