YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office has identified Walter Kornegay, 36, as the man found shot to death on the North Side playground in Crandall Park.

Kornegay appears in court records in Youngstown and Liberty over the last decade. One misdemeanor Liberty traffic case from 2004 indicates that Kornegay lived on Catalina Avenue. That is one of the roads connecting to Redondo Road, which travels along the southeastern part of the park close to where Kornegay was found Saturday afternoon.

A Youngstown police report released Monday states that the man was discovered face down near a swingset. When ambulance personnel arrived, they pronounced the man dead. Police said he had been shot multiple times.

Police and witnesses at the scene Saturday evening said they believed the gunfire that killed Kornegay happened about 2:45 p.m. Police said a boy about 9 years old attending a graduation party at the Crandall Park pavilion went down some steps from the pavilion area to the playground and saw the man lying in the grass. The youth then told adults.

But the adults assumed it was someone sleeping. About 5 p.m., Gene O’Brien of Signal Security of Greater Youngstown, which has the contract to provide security at the park, went to the playground and determined that the man was actually a deceased gunshot victim.

He notified a sheriff’s deputy who also was working security, and the man was actually a deceased gunshot victim.

He notified a sheriff’s deputy who also was working security, and the deputy called Youngstown police. O’Brien said he kept the children away from the playground.

A person who lives not far from the park told The Vindicator he or she heard gunshots coming from the park about 2:45 p.m. and also heard gunshots from that area June 11. The person said it is unusual to hear gunshots in the park area during the day.

The people hosting the graduation party arrived about 3:30 p.m., apparently after the gunfire was heard, one witness said.