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Police investigate South Side homicide

Friday, December 22, 2017

YOUNGSTOWN

Detectives are investigating after an injured man who was found about 10:20 p.m. Thursday in a South Side home later died.

A police news release classified the death as a homicide. If an autopsy rules it is a homicide, it will be the city’s 26th of 2017.

Police were called to a home in the 100 block of East Judson Avenue, where a 35-year-old man was found unconscious with blood on him. The man was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital but he died on the way, the release said.

An examination at the hospital found that the victim had a bullet wound, the release said.