Police investigate weekend homicide in Youngstown

October 4, 2026

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Police Department is investigating a weekend shooting that left a man dead outside a South Side bar. A police report states the shooting happened before 3 a.m. Sunday after police received a call about gunfire in the area of East Lucius Avenue near South and Detroit avenues. A man, 20, was found with multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he later died. The police department’s detective division and crime lab and the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office are investigating. Police said there are no suspects at…

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