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Police in Akron, Copley and the Summit County Coroner’s Office are investigating the shooting deaths of three Youngstown men found Friday ä two in Akron and one in Copley. Their deaths are homicides. All three were shot in the head.
Killed were Inmer Reyes, 25, Victor Varela-Rodriguez, 31, and Domingo Castillo-Reyes, 35.
The bodies of Reyes and Varela-Rodriguez were found at 8:35 a.m. Friday when police were called to the area of Cordova Avenue near Redbush Road in Akron. The bodies were found on the side of the road bound and gagged, according to a Summit County Coronerás Office news release.
Castillo-Reyesá body was found at about 8:55 a.m. Friday in the 2100 block of Wright Road in Copley. His body was found in a ditch along side of the roadway. He also was bound and gagged.
Elias L. Gudino II, 58, of Akron was arrested within 24 hours and arraigned Monday in Barberton Municipal Court on aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder. Both charges were filed by Copley police. It is not clear why there are two charges filed rather than three. A clerk at Akron Municipal Court said the charges in the case are being filed in Barberton Court because Gudino was arrested in Copley.
Gudino is in the Summit County jail, according to jail records.
WKYC 3News of Cleveland reports that Gudino was previously convicted of possessing, with intent to distribute approximately 8 kilograms of cocaine in Akron in 2010 and was sent to prison.