Teen arrested in St. Dom's killing
http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/jan/30/teen-arrested-in-st-dom8217s-killing/
A TV news report last night indicated that the teen lived on Volney Road. That's guite a distance from the scene of the crime.
The problem of distance was solved a century ago with the invention of the automobile.
The initial report of the homicide made it sound as though the killer lived in the "bad neighborhood" surrounding the church.
Yes, the use of the automobile makes it possible for criminals to efficiently travel to any community to commit crimes.
An automobile isn't even needed here, folks. People are so poor in Youngstown,
that they routinely walk all the way across town just to visit their friends.
I know this from firsthand experience with several people I know in Youngstown.
They have no car, they have no money, and they walk.
They are not, however, criminals....
Shocking report about this cold blooded killer:
Houser freed from jail in Nov. after judge slashed bail
http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/feb/02/houser-freed-from-jail-in-nov-after-judg/
Killing of 80-year-old lady should serve as clarion call
http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/jan/31/killing-of-80-year-old-lady-should-serve/?newswatch
Is there a WRTA route the killer may have taken?
Why?Town
FYI
There are five or more video cameras on each WRTA bus. If the killer would have taken the bus, his entire trip would have been documented.
The perpetrators in the Joe Kaluza shooting were caught because of the cameras on a WRTA bus.
Both the City and County Prosecutor are responsable for this cold blooded killer being on the street.
Who cares how he got to the scene of the crime. His rap sheet tells it all about him. The sooner he's put to death the better off we'll all be!
By the way, another Youngstown killer will be executed Thursday.
I agree Towntalk. Given Houser's past he never should have been on the street. I hope our city officials/administrators realize that repetitive juvenile offenders need to be dealt with more harshly.
I say take a 44 magnum, put one bullet in chamber, hold it to his head and make him sweat through a series of Russian Roulette pulls of the trigger until it fires and he's dead.
Jay Macejko was on a local talk show this morning discussing this murder. He mentioned that investigators are checking the cell tower recorders to see if the alleged killer's cell phone was at the crime scene when the murder took place.
Jay... that's an interesting proposition, but unless the [alleged] perpetrator's
cellphone was equipped with a GPS device *and* the on board GPS device
was actually turned on at the time, they will only be able to narrow the
whereabouts of the cell phone down to an "area" - not an exact science in
the absence of GPS data.
Modern cell phones that are equipped with a GPS transceiver will automatically
activate their GPS when the user dials "911" - from what I've read this feature
can not be turned off (at least, not without hacking the handset).
The other problematic aspect of using the cellphone's location at the time of
the murder would be trying to prove that it was on the suspect's person. Placing
the phone in the area does not place its owner there....even though it would
not make things look very good for him if this is used in court against him.
I am not making any arguments in favor of the perpetrator - I think he should
slowly and agonizingly rot in HELL, FOREVER, but I've always felt that GPS devices
are too intrusive - my cell phone does not have one and I like it that way.
Ohio city shaken by church killing as it labors to reinvent itself, remove vestiges of decline
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-youngstown-shaken-by-slaying,0,532601.story
http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/feb/06/st-dom-suspect8217s-parents-arrested/?newswatch
Look at the son's legal troubles on the Mahoning County court website. Impressive for an 18 year old. Then look at his father's. When I pulled up the father's name(birth year 1964), another person with "Junior" came up, with an AKA that he also uses his mother's name. Nothing with the mother's name. No wonder the 18 year old has no morals.
what is the URL for the criminal records on this guy on the county web site?
http://courts.mahoningcountyoh.gov/pa/pa.urd/pamw6500.display
Type in the names. I think if I try to link to the actual page, this one comes up anyway. For each name after that, I can't just re-type. I must back out of the site completely.