First Murder For 2013

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A Youngstown man with a violent past was arrested for the city's first murder of the year.

Larry Blue, 32, formerly of Parmalee Avenue, was charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault after he was arrested Saturday by the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force Saturday at a Tyrell Avenue apartment.

A woman, Khadijah Nicole Payden Briggs, 19, of Maplewood Court, was charged with complicity to aggravated robbery.

Blue was ordered held in the Mahoning County Jail on $1.25 million bond and Briggs on $150,000 bond.

Blue is accused of fatally shooting David Stokes, 52, of Lisbon, multiple times at about 11:45 a.m. Friday in a Rosewood Lane parking lot in the Rockford Village Apartment complex.

He is also facing charges for shooting Matthew Sharp, also of Columbiana County, in the leg.

A third person with Stokes and Sharp escaped uninjured.

Police indicated early in the investigation the murder may have started as an attempted robbery. Prosecutors on Monday said Briggs orchestrated a drug deal between Stokes and Blue.

Investigators spent time trying to obtain video surveillance from the WRTA station to determine if someone on the bus was linked with the shooting.

The Mahoning County Coroner's Office has ruled Stoke's death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the back. It is the city's first homicide of 2013. The city had 26 last year, including three through the first month last year.

Blue, according to court records, was sentenced to two years in prison for complicity to felonious assault and two more years in 2007 for attempted felonious assault, having weapons as a felon and improperly handling a gun in a vehicle.

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Victim Identified in East Side Shooting
http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Victim-Identified-in-East-Side-Shooting/bVAsqxv5nEyRixTHwrkvkA.cspx

[iwasthere]

jackie gleason favorite saying, "one of these days , alice i will shoot you to the moon" that is how i feel about these low iives.

[Youngstownshrimp]

Dennis,
Can you please call me at the store 330 707 9688  , your PM still blocks me my friend.

Ron

[irishbobcat]

Well, at least we got through January without one.....

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SOURCE: WKBN-TV


A Columbiana County man was fatally shot Friday at an apartment complex on Youngstown's East Side and another man was hospitalized with non-life threatening gunshot wounds, police said.

The two men were shot at about 11:45 a.m. Friday in a parking lot on Rosewood Lane in the Rockford Village Apartment complex. Police originally believed it was an attempted robbery but investigators cautioned it's too early in the investigation to tell.

Police said the dead man was 52 and from Columbiana County, but were unable to further identify the man, who was shot multiple times. Police said they were trying to obtain video surveillance from the WRTA station and are trying to establish a link between someone on the bus with the shooting.

If ruled a homicide, it would be the first in 2013. The city had 26 last year, including three through the first month last year.

Police said they have no suspects and no witnesses had come forward as of about 1 p.m. Friday.

The other man, who police said also is from Columbiana County, was shot in the leg and was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center. Police are still trying to determine what they were doing in the area.

Just a couple hours after the Rosewood Lane shooting, another man showed up at St. Elizabeth's with a gunshot wound.  The man told police he was shot on Belmont Avenue near the Galaxy Seafood restaurant. Police are investigating to see if the two shootings are related.

Friday's fatal shooting happened in the same complex where 8-year-old Bryce Linebaugh was fatally shot with an assault rifle in August. Shawn Wilson, 21, pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, which spared him from facing the death penalty if convicted at trial.