Homicide ruling in one Warren death, indictment in another
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
The Trumbull County coroner has ruled the Saturday death of Tyler Mitchell, 18, of Warren and Niles, a homicide – the result of multiple gunshot wounds.
His death was the second one in two days last weekend, doubling the number for 2017 so far from two to four in the city.
Mitchell, who had an Orchard Avenue Southeast address in a police report from July 1, died at 5:30 a.m. Monday, police said.
He was found in the front yard of a home in the 2700 block of Burton Street Southeast.
A woman called 911 at 5:30 a.m. to say that “there’s a man in my grass.” She said he’s “screaming for help.” She said she heard about six gunshots.
Ambulance personnel arrived a short time later and determined Mitchell was dead.
Police have said they don’t know what led to the shooting and had no suspects.
Meanwhile, the coroner, Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, said he found no signs of trauma on the body of Tom Dailey, 46, of the Columbus area, when Dr. Germaniuk conducted an autopsy this week.
He said a police report indicated that dried blood spatter was found on Dailey’s shirt and around his nose, but that was vomit, not blood, Dr. Germaniuk said.
A cause of death for Dailey is pending further studies, including toxicology. It’s likely to take about two months for the result to be returned to the coroner’s office.
Dailey was found dead Saturday in the Econo Lodge on Youngstown Road by cleaning personnel.
Dailey 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.
He completed the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court’s drug court program last September.
In the other homicide case last weekend, Arteum P. Brodeur, 24, of North Park Avenue, was indicted Thursday by a Trumbull County grand jury of murder and tampering with evidence in the death of Michael Krevas, 31, of Washington Street on Saturday night.
Brodeur was arrested late Saturday, a few hours after Krevas was found stabbed in the parking lot of an apartment building on North Park, a short distance north of downtown.
Brodeur will be arraigned this morning in Trumbull County Common pleas court.
The sheriff’s office confirmed Thursday that Brodeur was assaulted early Wednesday in the county jail and was taken to St. Joseph Warren Hospital for treatment of minor injuries to his head.
A jail incident report says another inmate, Kashuan Williams, 23, assaulted Brodeur with fists and a plastic garbage can while Brodeur was laying on a cot in a crowded pod.
Brodeur tried to protect his head, but he did not fight back, Maj. Dan Mason, jail administrator, said. Jail officials viewed the fight on surveillance video.
It’s not known what the fight was about, Mason said. The matter is being referred to the Warren prosecutor for possible charges against Williams, who is incarcerated on felonious-assault and drug-possession charges.