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More details released on latest shooting in Youngstown
TweetYOUNGSTOWN — A 16-year-old girl is dead and a man critically wounded after a shooting on the city’s South Side late Wednesday.
Police responded to a report of gunshots on the 100 block of West Delason Avenue around 10:30 p.m. and found a black Pontiac Grand Am had hit a utility pole near Hillman Street.
Both occupants were nonresponsive upon arrival by the police. The female passenger was found slumped over in her seat with bullet wounds to her back and torso, and the driver was slumped against the steering wheel bleeding from a head wound.
The victims were identified as Randolph Jeter, 19, and Lashonda Shaw, 16 Both had the same Cedar Lane address on the city’s East Side, police said.
An ambulance took both to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where the girl was pronounced dead. Jeter, who showed staggered breathing at the scene, is in critical condition and was placed on life support in intensive care
According to a police report, a witness saw two vehicles beside each other near 196 West Delason Ave., one being the black Grand Am. Moments later, the witness heard gunshots and watched the Grand Am head slowly toward Hillman Avenue as the other car sped away in the opposite direction. The Grand Am softly hit a utility pole on the north side of the street, stopped, then slowly rolled backwards onto the street.
Authorities found broken glass and numerous bullet casings in the street front of 196 West Delason Ave., and counted seven bullet holes on the passenger side door of the Grand Am.
The shooting death would be the city’s 15th homicide this year. There were 14 homicides in Youngstown at this time in 2007.
For more on the story, see Friday’s Vindicator or Vindy.com
Comments
This is another young life that has been lost. It does not matter what the argument was over or what the social, economic or academic standing of these people are, a gun should not have been used.
As my grandfather used to say; a person who has to use a weapon is a wimp, a person who fights with his fists is truly a man. You killed a girl! Either your aim is really off and you need glasses or you just did not care that you were shooting into the passenger door where a girl who just turned 16 last month was sitting. What all of you sad boys should do, is fight like a man. You are all so sad.
LaShonda was a beautiful girl who enjoyed life and will be missed greatly by all of her family and friends. I hope that the person who did this is caught and placed in a 5'x5' cell. I do not wish death on them, that would be to easy.
Unfortunately, her father who is also my brother, was brutally stabbed to death in Atlanta six years ago by an illegal Mexican immigrant. He is greatly loved and missed by his family as well. I love you Keith!
For all of you who take this senseless death as an opportunity to make negative comments about a person who has been murdered, just remember, she was a person that bled blood the same color as yours. She was a 16 year old who had a life, a mother and four siblings who are now mourning her death. She had grandmothers and great-grandmothers, aunts, great-aunts, uncles and cousins who loved her and are saddened, because someone decided to be a wimp. She had hopes and dreams that will never be a reality now. A person who was really angry and sad took those dreams away from her in a moment of stupidity.
So as a community people decide to make horrible comments about an innocent child who was gunned down. Does it make you feel better about yourself and make you feel like you are better than everyone else? Is your life so unfulfilled that saying mean and ignorant comments is the highlight of your day? This is a murder, and it can happen to anyone, maybe not under these circumstances, but it can happen. Try this comment out for a change; " I am so sorry to hear about this murder, I will say a prayer for her and her family. I hope that they find the people responsible for this horrible act". Wow, what if we really lived in a world with people that honestly cared about each other? The world would be a much greater place.
My 12 year old daughter was so sad when I told her about the death of her cousin. She said mommy, why do people have to be so evil? Why? While she was crying, all I could say was, I don't know, I don't know why people choose to be so evil, that is the life they choose to lead. I don't think that they respect life.
We will never see LaShonda again, but the love and memories we have for her will live on in all of us, you can't kill that.
Rest in peace LaShonda
With all my love,
Aunt Sherri Shaw Haughton