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Man indicted in S. Side killing

YOUNGSTOWN — A Mahoning County grand jury indicted Tim M. Underwood, 29, on charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter, burglary, being a felon in possession of a firearm and several gun specifications in the Nov. 20, 2021, shooting death of Marquise T. Lewis, 27, in a home on Plum Street on the South Side.

Underwood’s indictment alleges that Underwood killed Lewis “as a proximate result of (Underwood) committing or attempting to commit” burglary and that Underwood was not allowed to possess a firearm because of a juvenile aggravated robbery in 2008 in Mahoning County when he was 15 years old.

The U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitives Task Force arrested Underwood on the North Side on April 13.

Underwood had an Oregon Avenue address on the West Side in a 2018 traffic case filed in Mahoning County Area Court in Austintown. He lived on Douglas Avenue on the South Side when he was sentenced to 14 days in jail and placed on two years of probation in 2016 after pleading guilty in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to receiving stolen property and forgery.

Youngstown police said in November that Lewis was found dead from gunfire inside a home in the 500 block of Plum Street. Police went to the home after a neighbor reported hearing a “loud bang” and asked police to investigate.

Police said Lewis did not live in the home, and police did not know how he got into the house. The homeowner, a woman in her late 60s, was not home at the time. Police said they were not aware of anyone being harmed in the episode other than Lewis.

Lewis was born in Youngstown and attended East High School, according to his obituary. He enjoyed writing music, rapping and singing, and had eight siblings.

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