YOUNGSTOWN — A man, 18, was shot to death in the 900 block of Lanterman Avenue, not far from Lanterman’s Mill on the South Side, early Wednesday. It is being called a homicide.

A Youngstown police news release states that officers were called to the 900 block of Lanterman Avenue and also the 900 block of Bonnie Brae Avenue one street over at 12:05 a.m. for reports of gunfire and a victim shot.

As officers arrived, they saw a man, 18, laying in the road, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, a Youngstown police report states.

Officers and ambulance personnel attempted life-saving measures, but the young man died from his injuries soon afterward at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, the news release states.

Youngstown police detectives and crime scene officers were sent to the scene and began to carry out an investigation. They spoke with neighbors, as it was discovered that several houses also had been struck by gunfire, the release states.

No arrests have been made, and he victim’s name is not yet being released. The police department and Mahoning County Coroner’s Office are investigating the death.

The Youngstown Police Department is asking for anyone who may have seen or heard anything related to this homicide to contact the police department’s detective division. Call the Youngstown Police Department at 330-742-8973 or Crime Stoppers at 330-746-2583 with information or tips, the release states. Information can be left anonymously.

PREVIOUS HOMICIDES

This is the eighth homicide of the year in Youngstown with the previous one happening early June 8, when Raymond Butler Jr., 28, was found shot to death in a vehicle driving at the intersection of Gibson Street and Poland Avenue just southeast of downtown.

Officers were sent there at 3:58 a.m. for reports of a person shot inside a vehicle and found Butler.

The killing before that was the April 4 killing of Nestor Diaz, 37, who was stabbed to death in the 3700 block of Tippecanoe Road in the Cornersburg area of the city’s West Side. Camilo Sotolongo-Barreto, 38, was arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court on a murder charge June 6 in the death. Sotolongo-Barreto waived preliminary hearing in the case Friday, and his case was bound over to a Mahoning County grand jury.

Keilub Paul, 3, was killed in a 5 p.m. April 14 shooting death at a home on Pointview Avenue on the South Side, but no ruling has been made yet as to the cause and manner of that death because it is still being investigated, the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office confirmed Wednesday morning.

The Youngstown Police Department says there were 20 homicides in 2024. They do not count the two officer-involved killings that year.