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Shooting death

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said a man found shot to death Wednesday nighton the South Side is the city’s 21st homicide victim of the year.

Lt. Doug Bobovnyik of the Detective Bureau said Brandon Treharn, 30, of Gaither Avenue, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds on the sidewalk in the 900 block of East Pasadena Avenue just after 7 p.m by officers called to the scene.

A 38-year-old man who was with Treharn ran about a block away and knocked on a door asking for help, Bobovnyik said. That man has a gunshot wound to the shoulder and is being treated at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

No arrests were made. Bobovnyik said detectives are still trying to piece together what happened.

In 2016, Youngstown had 18 homicides.

Hamad’s son’s hearing

WARREN

Eimad Hamad, son of Nasser Hamad, is scheduled for a probation-violation hearing Tuesday before Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Eimad Hamad, 23, of Strongsville, was arrested Nov. 6 at the Trumbull County Courthouse shortly after completing his testimony in his father’s aggravated-murder trial.

Nasser Hamad, 48, of Howland was convicted of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder for shooting to death two young men and injuring three other people at his Howland home Feb. 25. He was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison.

Eimad Hamad’s unspecified probation violation is related to his December 2014 conviction on receiving stolen property and forgery. He was sentenced in 2015 to five years’ probation in the case.

Trial is pushed back

SEBRING

The misdemeanor criminal trial for James Bates, the former Sebring water-system operator who is charged with three counts of failing to notify water customers of lead in their water in 2015, has been pushed back from this month to 9 a.m. Jan. 22.

Bates, 62, of Carey Road in Salem, was set to go on trial Nov. 6, but prosecutors and the defense asked for it to be delayed.

Judge Diane Vettori of Mahoning County Area Court set the new trial date. Court personnel say no additional hearings are expected before the trial date.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office is prosecuting the case on behalf of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

The charges followed the Sebring water crisis of early 2016, which involved residents having to drink bottled water while officials brought down the level of lead in the drinking water.

City’s Christmas tree

YOUNGSTOWN

The city has chosen a blue spruce donated by Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Bucci, 236 E. Midlothian Blvd., to be its official Christmas tree.

Diamond Steel Construction is providing its time and equipment at no cost to assist the city’s park and recreation department staff in removing and transporting the tree to Central Square today.

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