Trumbull coroner rules on last week's homicides

Staff report

WARREN —The deaths of a man and woman in separate Tuesday-night Trumbull County killings have been ruled homicides.

William E. Anderson, 63, of Ohio Avenue in Youngstown, died from a single gunshot that traveled from his neck to his chest and abdomen, Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, county coroner, has ruled.

Anderson was found unresponsive in a car on Harvard Drive Southeast, which is near the Candlelight Apartments off of North Road.

Two people called 911 about 10:06 p.m., one of them a man who said he was driving past Anderson’s 2015 Ford Taurus and saw Anderson inside.

The man said he thinks someone else was in the car with Anderson and took off on foot, leaving open the passenger door. Police are following up leads but have not made an arrest.

Dr. Germaniuk also ruled that Cathryn Lambert, 48, of Stow, died from a gunshot wound to the neck.

Investigators said Lambert was picking up her daughter, Tiffany Lambert, 26, after Tiffany had an argument with her boyfriend, Douglas S. Day, 23, of Middlefield.

Cathryn was killed at the home where Tiffany Lambert and Day lived at about 11:35 p.m. in the 4000 block of state Route 87, which is just west of the state Route 87 and state Route 534 intersection.

Tiffany also was wounded by gunfire and taken to Geauga County Hospital for treatment.

Day was arrested a few hours later at his mother’s house in Roaming Shores, Ashtabula County. He was charged Wednesday with aggravated murder and felonious assault in the attack on the Lamberts and remains in the county jail in lieu of $1 million bond.

Dr. Germaniuk ruled earlier the death of Jane L. Brown, 84, a homicide as a result of blunt traumatic injuries and an incision of the neck.

Brown was found dead in her home on Church Hill-Hubbard Road at about 6:15 a.m. Monday after neighbors called 911 about noises coming from a wooded area a couple hundred yards away.

Police later arrested Sean Clemens, 33, Brown’s neighbor from across the street, and charged him with aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and attempted burglary in Brown’s death. He’s also in the county jail but not eligible to make bond.