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Coroner rules stabbing death homicide; ruling on motel death pending
Rulings in two other deaths are still pending
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
The Trumbull County Coroner’s office has ruled the death of Michael J. Krevas, 31, of Washington Street, as a homicide that resulted from a chest stab wound.
The ruling makes it likely prosecutors will now seek a murder indictment against the man charged in the death, Arteum P. Brodeur, 24, of North Park Avenue.
Warren police charged Brodeur with murder on Saturday, hours after he was taken into custody in the 9:23 p.m. stabbing in a North Park parking lot.
Brodeur is in the county jail in lieu of a $500,000 bond.
Police have not said why the two men were fighting in the apartment parking lot, which is just north of downtown.
Police say Brodeur left the scene after the stabbing and was arrested at a home on Willard Avenue Southeast near the Willard K-8 School.
Meanwhile, Coroner Dr. Humphrey Germaiuk has conducted an autopsy on the body of Tom Dailey, 46, but a determination on what caused his death is pending further studies, including toxicology results and tissue examination.
Toxicology results usually take about two months to be returned to the coroner’s office.
Dailey, 46, of the Columbus area, helped start Warren’s first drug detoxification center, First Step Recovery, in 2015. The facility said he left First Step several months later.
He also indicated on his LinkedIn page online that he was executive director and co-owner of Braking Point Recovery Center of Central Ohio.
The Dailey family provided a statement Tuesday through Atty. Brendan Keating, saying the family is “shocked and saddened by Tom’s unexpected death and ask [that] our need for peace and privacy be respected at this time, as well as Tom’s own dignity as a child of God.”
The statement continues, “Tom’s overwhelming legacy was of helping others, and we’ve been hearing from so many people, friends and strangers alike, about how he touched their lives, often as they shared their struggles with the scourge of addiction together. That positive legacy is our focus right now.”
Dailey was found dead Saturday in the Econo Lodge on Youngstown Road by cleaning personnel.
Police say there were no obvious indications of what killed him because he was not under a doctor’s care, and there were no signs of trauma or drug use.
Dailey participated in the Trumbull Drug Court program at the county courthouse after being indicted on charges of theft and misuse of credit cards. He completed drug court last September, and his charges were dismissed.
Drug court allows a person facing a felony charge that is related to a substance-abuse problem to participate in weekly counseling sessions.
Dr. Germaniuk has not yet ruled on the death of Tyler Mitchell, 18, of Orchard Avenue Southeast, who died at 5:30 a.m. Monday on Burton Street Southeast, apparently of gunshot wounds.