Person shot dead on Tod Lane in Youngstown


YOUNGSTOWN — Police are on the scene of a deadly shooting in the 100 block of Tod Lane.

A body is lying in the yard of a home. A witness said the person was shot in the chest. 

Several witnesses described hearing gunfire and a car speeding down the road where the shots were coming from.

A pickup driving east down the street appeared to he caught in the cross fire. A window is shattered and it received damage to the drivers side.

Officers have taped off several streets as a crime scene.

Police have placed 40 shell casings in the street starting at a vacant lot just before 163 Tod Lane. The evidence markers continue east down the street to a home in the 130s.

A representative from the Mahoning County Coroner's Office has also just arrived.

This is the second shooting today.