Shooting death on East Side investigated

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The motive is unclear and police have no suspects in a shooting at a Magnolia Avenue apartment about 10 p.m. Saturday that left one man dead and another injured.

Killed was Tavares Jones, 41, of Victor Avenue in the Rockford Village housing complex. He was visiting his girlfriend at the time of the shooting, police said.

Several shots were fired through a screen door at the Magnolia apartment, said Youngstown police Lt. Doug Bobovnyik. Jones, who was shot in the chest, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Another man, Delataire White, 24, who listed a Brooklyn Avenue address, was shot in the leg and treated at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Two others in the Magnolia apartment at the time of the shooting were not injured, Bobovnyik said.

The detective said Jones and White were in the kitchen area when several shots were fired into the kitchen area of the apartment on Youngstown’s East Side. It is not known what type of weapon was used in the shooting.

Youngstown has 12 homicides so far in 2017, compared with 11 at this time last year and 18 for all of last year, according to Vindicator files.