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Murder victim served time in three separate cases
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A 22-year-old man who died after being found shot in a car Tuesday morning had served prison sentences in three separate cases, court records show.
Tyreese Lynch of East Judson Avenue died about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday in St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital after he was found wounded about 12:40 a.m. inside a car on Chicago Avenue on the South Side.
His death is the city‘s 13th homicide of 2017.
Police said they believe Lynch was killed as he was in his car by someone who was inside with him and that the shooting took place on Chicago.
Later Tuesday, reports said a man on the next street over, St. Louis Avenue, made a police report after he found a bullet hole in the windshield of his car. The man told police he heard gunfire about the time that police responded to Chicago Avenue. Police responded to the street after a gunfire sensor had picked up shots there.
Court records show Lynch was sentenced to 18 months in prison in July 2016 after he was arrested in February 2016 at an Austintown bar with a revolver, pills and heroin. He pleaded guilty in that case to charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, carrying concealed weapons and possession of heroin.
Court records show prosecutors agreed not to oppose an early release from prison if Lynch behaved there, but a release date for him could not be found.
About the same time, Lynch was given a sentence of one year for a probation violation stemming from a 2015 guilty plea to charges of failure to comply and receiving stolen property.
The Austintown arrest was a violation of that probation and that sentence was served concurrently with the one he received in the Austintown case.
In 2014, Lynch was sentenced to a year in prison after he pleaded guilty to a charge of felonious assault.
At the time of his plea, he was given credit for 205 days served in the county jail while awaiting completion of his sentence.
Police said they have no suspects in his slaying.
In 2016, Youngstown recorded 18 homicides.