Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN — Two people are dead after a Saturday afternoon shooting on the city’s South Side that police believe was related to a domestic incident.

The victims are described as a black man and a black woman, but police have not released age or identity at this time. The pair was found with gunshot wounds inside a home in the 500 block of West Judson Avenue around 12:30 p.m., according to a news release from the Youngstown Police Department.

Both victims were taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where they died.

Youngstown detectives were able to issue warrants Saturday night and arrested John W. Bruner III, 30, of Youngstown. He had not yet been booked into the Mahoning County Jail as of 10 p.m. Saturday.

Police are investigating the shooting as a domestic incident. WFMJ 21 News reported the two victims were related, but police said it is not a murder suicide.

The shooting marks the sixth and seventh homicides in the city this year and the fifth and sixth in February.

The first homicide of the year occurred Jan. 26 when a man, 35, was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds outside 720 Parkview Ave. in the Idora Park neighborhood, also on the South Side. A second homicide occurred Feb. 4 when Ramon Cooper, 29, was found shot to death outside a South Avenue bar. Aaron R. Clinkscale, 27, has been charged in that case.

On Feb. 9, two people were shot to death inside, and one person was shot to death outside, the Brothers of Power Classic Car Club on Logan Avenue.

Robert Shelton, 44, was arrested two days later in the shooting death of Dymond D. Ortello, 34, and his brother, Daniel Ortello, 31, and Charles Pullen at the bar.

Two others also were injured in the gunfight.

In 2019, there were a total of 20 homicides in Youngstown — a slight reduction from the previous two years, when the city saw 28 homicides.

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