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Charges against 1 of 4 men dismissed

YOUNGSTOWN — Charges against one defendant were dismissed, and the hearings for three other men charged in an alleged May 22 felonious assault on West Ravenwood Avenue have been pushed back to July while “additional investigation is being conducted.”

Javon Mixon, 24, was released from the Mahoning County jail Wednesday after city prosecutors dismissed four counts of complicity to felonious assault against him in Youngstown Municipal Court.

Mixon was being held in the county jail in lieu of $50,000 bond following his arrest in late May, but Youngstown Municipal Judge Renee DiSalvo dismissed the four charges at the request of Kathy Thompson, Youngstown city prosecutor, June 5.

Charges can be refiled at a later date, but they were dismissed while “additional investigation is being conducted,” according to a June 6 entry in the online case docket.

The charges were filed in relation to a May 22 incident on West Ravenwood Avenue on the South Side for a fight with gunfire. On their way, police learned a Chevrolet Malibu was involved, left the scene and its occupants had been detained by Mill Creek MetroParks police not far away on West Newport Drive.

The victim of the gunfire told police she was leaning into a car containing her 3-month-old child on West Ravenwood when someone in a Malibu shot at her car, which was struck. Officers found one spent bullet shell casing in the street near her car, the report states.

Officers also found three more spent bullet shell casings a short distance away on West Ravenwood.

Three men in the Malibu were detained by police, according to the report. They said they picked up the fourth man on Newport Drive and went to West Ravenwood, where the fourth man put on a ski mask and fired out of the front passenger car window.

Officers learned the fourth man had left Newport Drive in a Chrysler Sebring — after a witness told police the Sebring was not involved, according to the report.

Tilden L. Johnson, 21, of West Evergreen Avenue; Tyre D. Washington, 19, of St. Louis Avenue; and Labreilan M. Wilson, 19, of Cornell Avenue were taken into custody May 22 on four counts each of felonious assault, with hearings set for July 14. All three men have bonded out of the county jail.

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