Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN — The young man found shot to death in the 900 block of Lanterman Avenue three-tenths of a mile from Lanterman’s Mill on Youngstown’s South Side June 18 has been identified as Dailyn Ford, 18.

The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office released the victim’s identity in a news release Tuesday, stating that the office was notified at 5:35 a.m. June 18 of his death. Ford was transported to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

An autopsy was carried out by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office, and the investigation by the Youngstown Police Department and coroner’s office is ongoing, the release states.

A Youngstown Police report states that officers were called to the 900 block of Lanterman Avenue at 12:05 a.m. for reports of gunfire and a victim shot. Police said they saw the young man lying in the road suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.

Officers and ambulance personnel attempted life saving measures, but he died from his injuries soon afterward at the hospital.

During the investigation, officers learned that several houses also had been struck by gunfire.

Ford’s death 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 at the intersection of Gibson Street and Poland Avenue just southeast of downtown.