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Sat. 9:15 a.m.: Third suspect found in Youngstown today in killing of Rowan Sweeney, 4

YOUNGSTOWN — Members of the U.S. Marshal’s Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force early today arrested Andre McCoy, Jr., 22, in the killing of Rowan Sweeney. McCoy was located in a house on Parkhill Drive in Youngstown.

Authorities have been looking for McCoy for more than two years, according to a task force press release.

McCoy was indicted in the case March 25, 2021. McCoy was shot and seriously injured in the Sept. 21, 2020, episode that resulted Rowan being killed in a home on Perry Street in Struthers in what police believe was a robbery. After McCoy left the hospital, he has not been found.

McCoy is charged with aggravated murder, attempted murder, felonious assault and aggravated burglary, all with gun specifications.

Also charged with aggravated murder in the case is Kimonie Bryant, 26. Another co-defendant, Brandon Crump Jr., 19, is charged with being part of the robbery, but his case was recently sent back to Mahoning County Juvenile Court with regard to Rowan’s killing.

“Our task force never stopped looking for justice for Rowan Sweeney,” U.S. Marshal Peter Elliott of the Norther District of Ohio said in a press release. “Today that justice comes in the form of the last suspect arrested for the violent, tragic and needless death of a little boy.”

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