Hearing set in shootings

Hearing set in shootings

WARREN

A hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. today for Douglas S. Day, 24, of Mesopotamia Township, to plead guilty to unspecified charges in the April 25 shooting death of his girlfriend’s mother in Mesopotamia.

He is charged in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court with aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder in the death of his girlfriend’s mother and wounding of his girlfriend at the home Day and his girlfriend shared on state Route 87 near state Route 534.

Police say Day killed Cathryn Lambert, 48, of Stow, with a gunshot to the neck and injured his girlfriend, Tiffany Lambert, 26, by shooting her.

Investigators said Cathryn Lambert was picking up Tiffany after Tiffany and Day had an argument.

The shootings occurred about 11:35 p.m. Day was arrested at his mother’s house in Roaming Shores, Ashtabula County, a few hours after the shootings. He remains in the county jail.

Collecting donations

NORTH LIMA

South Range Local Schools will collect items for victims of recent natural disasters from 5:30 to 7 p.m. before Friday’s football game at Raider Stadium.

Items accepted include water, baby formula, diapers, toilet paper, paper towels, clothes, hygiene and cleaning products and nonperishable food items.

Those who donate at least 10 items will receive a pass granting free admission to three home winter sports events from the South Range Athletic Department.

Speaker to visit YSU

YOUNGSTOWN

Bill Dale of the Isle of Man in the British Isles, the founder of Beach Buddies and a recent recipient of the British Empire Medal, will visit campus this week as part of the Youngstown State University Lecture Series on Energy and the Environment.

Dale will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Room B100 of Cushwa Hall. The public lecture is free.

In October 2006, Dale founded Beach Buddies, an organization devoted to cleaning the beaches on the Isle of Man, an island of about 85,000 residents in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.

For information on Beach Buddies, visit beachbuddies.net.

Candidates forum

NORTH LIMA

A candidates forum for the election of Beaver Township trustee and South Range school board Nov. 7 will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Mount Olivet United Church of Christ, 410 W. South Range Road.

Local resident Brandon Gorcheff organized the forum. Members of the League of Women Voters of Greater Youngstown will serve as moderators. The agenda will include opening statements from each candidate as well as time to answer questions from both the moderators and audience.

Jury selection begins

YOUNGSTOWN

Jury selection began Monday before Judge Lou D’Apolito in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for the last of three men accused of the Nov. 14, 2015, shooting death of Thomas Owens, 33, of Burbank Avenue.

Jawonn Hymes, 26, faces a charge of aggravated murder of Owens, who was shot as he sat in a parked car on West Myrtle Avenue.

The other two defendants in the case were each convicted of complicity charges, and both are serving lengthy prison sentences.

Aggravated-murder trial

YOUNGSTOWN

Jury selection is underway in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for two men accused of killing a Masury man last November during an attempted robbery in the parking lot of an East Side flea market.

Visiting Judge Thomas Pokorny will hear the case against half-brothers David Madumelu, 24, and Daniel Kitchen, 26, both of Columbus, who both face charges of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery in the Nov. 6, 2016, killing of Joshua Beasley, 34, in the parking lot of the Four Seasons Flea Market on McCartney Road.

Police said Beasley was killed early in the morning before the flea market opened after the brothers spotted him in the parking lot on his motorcycle texting someone. Beasley gave his wallet to the two before he was shot and killed, police said.

Seeking cause of fire

COITSVILLE

Township firefighters are looking for the cause of a fire that heavily damaged a home Monday morning. Crews were called out after flames were reported at a home in the 1600 block of Hubbard-Coitsville Road about 1 a.m., according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner. Residents of the home escaped unharmed.