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YOUNGSTOWN -- The Mahoning County Coroner's Office has identified the man who was shot to death on Byron Street Thursday night as Nigel Reynolds, 27.
He was pronounced dead at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital after being found at the intersection of Byron and Kirkwood streets on the East Side.
Youngstown police were called there for a man with a gun and then also for gunfire.
When police arrived for the 6:38 p.m. call, they were flagged down by residents of a home in the 300 block of Byron Street, who said there was an unknown male in their detached garage who had been shot.
Officers began life saving measures on the man prior to the arrival of an American Medical Rescue ambulance. Ambulance personnel took the man to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he died later in the evening. Multiple pieces of evidence were gathered that will be submitted to the state crime lab, according to a news release from the Youngstown Police Department.
Officers were made aware of a second gunshot victim who arrived at the hospital in a person vehicle, but as of Friday morning, detectives were investigating that as a separate incident, the news release states.
The Youngstown Police Department detective division, along with the Mahoning County Coroner's Office are investing the death as a a homicide.
This is the city's 9th homicide of 2022.