YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Police Department is investigating the third fatal shooting in as many days after a 62-year-old man was shot Sunday afternoon on the city’s South Side.

Police were called out around noon Sunday to a domestic dispute where a man was found shot in a bedroom of a home at 160 E. Auburndale Ave., according to a police report.

Several Youngstown police cars and two ambulances were at the scene, and the house and property were surrounded by yellow crime scene tape.

A police report states the victim was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital and was listed in serious condition and later died.

The shooting is under investigation. Reports state a woman at the home was taken to the police station for questioning.

This is the fifth homicide of the year in the city and the third within the past 72 hours.

On Saturday, police Chief Carl Davis and Mayor Jamael Tito Brown held a news conference asking for people to remain calm after concern by residents over the two other homicides late Thursday and Friday afternoon.

The shooting deaths late last week have prompted an increased police presence throughout the city “for the foreseeable future.” An increased presence of Youngstown Police Department officers, as well as others from the Mahoning County Violent Crimes Task Force and the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office was announced at Saturday’s news conference.

“Tonight and in the coming days, we have a gun-reduction detail of officers working to find and arrest those people who we believe are carrying weapons and using them as an answer to their problems, You will be seeing a high volume of police activity in many of your neighborhoods as we look to take these guns off our streets,” Davis said.

The first deadly shootings on the city’s South Side occurred just before midnight Thursday in the 3200 block of South Avenue, and another around 4:30 p.m Friday in the 3400 block of Market Street.

A 30-year-old man was found dead late Thursday with gunshot wounds in a parking lot on South Avenue. The other, a 19-year-old man, died Friday after being taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. Neither of their identities have been released, pending an investigation by the coroner’s office.

One of Brown’s concerns following the two deaths is “street justice” in the form of retaliation.

“I ask that you let law enforcement do their job. Let’s not have street justice; let’s let the justice of the courts decide,” Brown said.

The increase in officers is upwards of 30, YPD Lt. Brian Butler said.

Davis said the uptick in officers will be around for the foreseeable future, saying it could last for weeks.

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