Dead in drive-through

YOUNGSTOWN — City police are asking for the public’s help in locating a driver who dragged a body under his car through a fast-food drive-through and over two city blocks early this morning.

Capt. Kenneth Centorame, chief of detectives, said police received a 911 call around 1 a.m. today from a person in the drive-through at McDonald’s at South Avenue and Midlothian Boulevard, who told the dispatcher there was a body under the car in front of him.

By the time police arrived, the car had fled, but the body was found in the westbound lane of Midlothian near Euclid Boulevard, two blocks from the McDonald’s.

Police are looking for a fire-engine red Chevy Cavalier or Cobalt, driven by a white male in his 20s, with short brown hair.

“It’s urgent that we find that car,” Centorame said. “We really need the public to get involved, if anyone has any information” on the car, the driver, the victim or the crime scene.

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