YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Police Department on Friday released the identity of the man whose remains were found in a vacant lot on Pasadena Avenue on the South Side on Tuesday.

The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office identified the person as Benjamin L. White, 26, who Youngstown police said was accused of trying to kill another man in the 200 block of Gaither Avenue Oct. 22, 2023, by shooting him in the face.

The Vindicator reported in November that the U.S. Marshal’s Service Northern Ohio Fugitive Task Force was offering a reward for information leading to White’s capture.

A November news release stated that White was wanted by the Youngstown Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service for aggravated robbery and felonious assault.

White was known to frequent the Youngstown and Cleveland areas, the news release stated.

In a Wednesday police report, the Youngstown Police Department reported finding the body on Pasadena Avenue near Dewey Avenue while investigating a missing persons case.

Several police agencies were in the Pasadena area searching for White’s body. Police did not say who they were looking for, but Friday’s press release stated they were looking for White, who was a suspect in an Oct. 22, 2023, felonious assault that occurred near there.

Youngstown Police Det. Sgt. Dave Sweeney provided officers Tuesday with a map of the crime scene associated with the felonious assault on Gaither Avenue, along with a ShotSpotter notification from the night of the shooting. Gaither is one street north of Pasadena Avenue.

Youngstown Patrolman Anthony Congemi and Mahoning County sheriff’s deputy Nate Rusu were checking the rear property line on Pasadena near Dewey when they smelled the odor of something decomposing. On the other side of a chain-link fence, they found the mostly decomposed body of what appeared to be an adult male, the report stated.

The Youngstown Police Department notified the police department’s Crime Scene Investigation division and the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office to investigate. Multiple Youngstown police detectives were already there as part of the search team.

If White were still alive, he would now be 27 years old. The Youngstown Police Department filed aggravated robbery and felonious assault charges against White in Youngstown Municipal Court Oct. 23, 2023, according to court records.

The Friday press release states that in the Oct. 22, 2023, shooting, White fled through the backyards. Officers at the scene said they heard one gunshot but could not determine where it came from.

A search was conducted, but officers could not locate the suspect. During the investigation of the shooting, police determined that White robbed the victim after shooting him, the Friday news release stated.

Sweeney said Friday that an autopsy determined that White died from a gunshot wound, but the manner of his death — such as homicide or suicide — was undetermined.

A 2022 court case out of Boardman Township in which White pleaded guilty or no contest to misdemeanor drug possession stated that White lived on Illinois Avenue in Girard at that time.

White had an address in Campbell when he was in that same court on a 2021 misdemeanor theft case. White did not have a prior felony record in Mahoning or Trumbull counties, according to common pleas court records.