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City’s 26th homicide victim ID’d

Police are awaiting notification of family before releasing name

YOUNGSTOWN — Police detectives continue to investigate the Saturday-afternoon shooting death of a man found inside the South Side home at 530 Plum St. and are awaiting notification of kin before releasing his identity.

Police were called to the home near Oakhill Avenue around 2 p.m. when a neighbor heard a “loud bang and wanted us to investigate,” Youngstown Police Capt. Jason Simon said Monday.

When officers arrived, they found a man in his 20s or 30s inside the house, dead from a gunshot wound. Police do not know how the man got into the house. He did not live there, Simon said.

The owner of the home, a woman in her late 60s, was not home at the time.

“No suspects at this time,” Simon said. “At this time, the only person we are aware of who was injured in any way was the deceased.”

The death marks the 26th homicide of the year. The city had 28 last year. The last one before this was the shooting death of Telly Smith, 45, who was killed Sept. 20 in the 200 bock of Hughes Street on the South Side — exactly two months before the Plum Street homicide.

Larry Tarver, 49, Smith’s live-in brother, was charged with murder in the case and was bound over to a Mahoning County grand jury.

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