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18-year-old charged in Feb. murder

Body found in cemetery

YOUNGSTOWN — Jamiyah M. Brooks, 18, of Lillburn Drive, who has been wanted on a murder charge since Feb. 2, turned himself in to Youngstown police Wednesday and was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Brooks is charged in the death of Isiah J. Helms, 22, whose body was found at Mount Hope Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery, 1945 Liberty Road, on Feb. 2. He died from gunshot wounds, the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office ruled.

The murder charge was filed Feb. 2 in Youngstown Municipal Court. No arraignment date is yet on file for Brooks.

Helms was reported missing Jan. 30. The body was found using information provided by the public and through an investigation by police, according to a police department news release. Helms was last seen leaving his Plaza View Court apartment on the East Side just before 3 a.m. Jan. 30.

He was believed to have been picked up by an unidentified person in a vehicle.

Brooks was indicted Jan. 13 in a separate incident on charges of tampering with evidence, carrying a concealed weapon and obstructing official business.

That matter began at 2:44 p.m. Dec. 28 with a call of two men firing rifles at a house on Ivanhoe Avenue on the South Side. Officers spoke with individuals who wished to remain anonymous who said they recorded the incident on video. The video showed two men running from the street in front of the home and then into a house.

Officers spoke to the people in the home, including Brooks, and were told that someone in a vehicle went past the home and fired, possibly just into the air. Officers found multiple shell casings of two calibers in the road.

Officers were advised by concerned residents that while they were collecting shell casings, two men went out the back of the house. Officers went in that direction and detained a juvenile and Brooks, who was headed back toward the original home, according to a police report.

Meanwhile, someone called 911 to report having video of a man discarding a firearm nearby. The person said a motion detector alerted to the activity. The person provided a video of the man putting a gun into a sweatshirt. The person found the sweatshirt and weapon hanging from a tree nearby. Officers collected the items, and also determined the man in the video was Brooks, the report states.

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