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Police: Man dies after slashing arm on glass door during break in
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police say a man who was found bleeding heavily outside a Logan Avenue garage Friday morning bled to death after he broke into a business and slashed his arm on a glass door inside.
Police were called about 12:25 a.m. and found Lawrence Reed, 49, lying outside the business. An officer found a faint pulse and called for an ambulance.
Chief of Detectives Capt. Brad Blackburn said Reed was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital but he died from blood loss.
Blackburn said Reed was at the business to get some property he thought belonged to him. He got inside by breaking through a garage door.
Inside the business, he broke an interior door that was made of glass to get his property, and when he reached inside to unlock that door, he cut himself on a jagged piece of glass.
Blackburn said Reed told his girlfriend where he was going and when he did not return after an hour, she also called police.
When officers arrived, they found a trail of blood leading from the garage to where the victim was, and they thought maybe more people were inside, Blackburn said. He said a key holder was called to the scene to let police in, when they discovered the broken glass door.
Blackburn said the garage had some property of Reed’s they were “holding on to,” and Reed wanted the property back.
“He did not have permission to be in the building,” Blackburn said. Blackburn said Reed lived in the area.