YOUNGSTOWN — Police are investigating the city’s first homicide of 2024 after becoming aware of a man, 23, who arrived at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital by personal vehicle Monday afternoon.

They learned of the shooting at 1:12 p.m. Officers determined that a possible scene where the shooting occurred was East Evergreen Avenue at Erie Street on the South Side, according to a Youngstown Police Department news release.

The police patrol division located that scene and contacted detectives and the police department crime lab to go there. The victim was pronounced dead at the hospital, the release states.

Anyone with information about the killing is asked to call the police department at 330-742-8911 or Crime Stoppers at 330-746-CLUE. Tips remain anonymous, and a reward may be available.

The most recent homicide before Monday was the Dec. 10 shooting death of Ty’Rice Logan, 26, whose body was found near the sidewalk near Miss Daisy’s Place, 2210 South Ave., with multiple gunshot wounds.

It was the third of three homicides that took place within 18 hours of one another that Saturday and Sunday.

Killed Dec. 9 were Josea Hodges, 22; and Chyann Gruber, 20. Hodges was killed of multiple gunshot wounds that morning in the 1900 block of East Midlothian Boulevard on the South Side. The coroner’s office was notified of his death at 11:30 a.m. Gruber’s body was found on Old McCartney Road that afternoon. She had multiple gunshot wounds, the coroner’s office reported.

Youngstown police announced Dec. 27 that an arrest warrant had been issued for Jonthony Altreche, 19, in the Dec. 10 killing of Logan.

So far, there has been no indication that Altreche is in custody. Capt. Jason Simon of the police department’s detective division has said he did not believe the three homicides are related.

Youngstown had 22 homicides last year, two fewer than it had in 2022.

Youngstown’s 24 homicides in 2022 includes the April 1, 2022, shooting death of James Sheets by Struthers police officers at the corner of Steel Street and Salt Springs Road on Youngstown’s West Side.

The total of 22 homicides in 2023 includes the Oct. 12 officer-involved shooting death of Ricco Acevedo, 45, by Youngstown police at a home on Helena Avenue on the South Side.

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