More hearings set in shooting death of 19-year-old Youngstown man
YOUNGSTOWN — The second hearing in Mahoning County Juvenile Court for a 14-year-old boy charged in the March 23 shooting death of Keondre Lewis, 19, at a home on Rhoda Avenue, was held Tuesday.
Officials said the hearing mostly involved matters related to evidence, known as “discovery” and the details of how the case will proceed.
Another hearing is set for 10 a.m. May 7, but there is also a hearing set for 9 a.m. June 2, officials said.
At the June 2 hearing, a decision could be made on whether the case will be transferred to adult court.
Lewis, a 2024 Youngstown East High School graduate, was found in the dining room of a home on Rhoda Avenue on the West Side with a gunshot wound when police arrived for a 2:14 p.m. shooting that had just happened.
While Youngstown police were on Rhoda Avenue, “multiple witnesses” gave the name of the shooter to police, a Youngstown police report states.
“Officers were able to locate the suspect at a different location and take him into custody,” the report states.
The boy’s charges are murder with a firearm specification, a “mandatory Serious Youthful Offender Specification,” plus a specification of forfeiture of a handgun. The boy was ordered held in detention in the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center.