Shots from 2 cars fired at women in Campbell
CAMPBELL — A police report released more than two weeks after a fatal shooting provides new information about the case.
The gunfire killed Amerah Green, 19, and wounded another woman.
Campbell police released the initial report of the incident to The Vindicator this week after a follow-up public-records request. Campbell officials refused to release an initial report on the incident in the days just after the killing.
According to the report, two black vehicles went past a home on Lettie Avenue about 10:35 p.m. May 21, and individuals inside the vehicles “opened fire” on the home and several vehicles around the home.
The vehicles containing the shooters were traveling south.
Green was found unresponsive in the home’s dining room with a gunshot wound to her lower back.
Police officers and a Campbell firefighter also found a second woman, Ternisha Sutton, 27, in the dining room with a gunshot wound to the head.
Another woman was holding a towel on Sutton’s head wound, but Sutton was conscious. She was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive, Lt. Kevin Sferra of the Campbell Police Department said.
A birthday party was taking place at the Lettie Avenue residence at the time of the gunfire. Individuals in the house heard several gunshots and “took cover,” according to the police report.
Sferra said no arrests have been made in the shootings, but police have questioned suspects.
Police also are waiting for lab results, Sferra said.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is assisting the Campbell Police Department with crime scene investigating.
The last homicide in Campbell before Green’s killing was the Oct. 25, 2021, shooting death of Jerome Pruitt. John L. Ellis, 64, of Canfield Road in Youngstown, was indicted on two counts of murder with gun specifications, felonious assault with a gun specification and tampering with evidence in the case. He remains in the Mahoning County jail.
Campbell police said Ellis shot Pruitt once in the torso and once in the arm in the front yard of a home in the 100 block of Gordon Avenue about 6 p.m. Oct. 25.




