YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Melissa Dinsio told jurors Tuesday in opening statements in the Mickele Glenn murder trial that Ed Lewis, 53, was sitting in a chair outside his home on Oneta Avenue on the West Side about 6:15 p.m. Oct. 31, 2023, when Mickele Glenn, now 36, drove into Lewis’ driveway, got out and asked if he could use Lewis’ bathroom.

Lewis knew Glenn and let him inside, whereupon Glenn shot Lewis seven times — in the head, chest, thigh and fingers, Dinsio said. Lewis’ body was discovered a couple days later by a neighbor.

Youngstown police detective George Anderson learned about a woman friend of Lewis’ who told Anderson she didn’t know who killed Lewis. But 17 months later, in March of 2025, a person called Anderson to tell him that the woman wanted to talk to him.

This time, she told Anderson some things about Glenn, leading Anderson to obtain locational data regarding Glenn’s phone. The data showed that on the night Lewis was killed, Glenn was within 300 feet of Lewis’ house, Dinsio said. She predicted that when jurors hear all the evidence, they will find Glenn guilty of Lewis’ murder.

Defense attorney Walter Ritchie then gave his opening statement, saying the state’s case against his client is built upon the testimony of one woman.

But the woman has said different things about Lewis’ murder at three different times. The first time she spoke to police was about two days after the homicide. She told a similar story about 18 months later.

But about two days after that, she told a quite different story, Ritchie said.

“There is no forensic evidence, no physical evidence, no eye witnesses, no confession, no motive, just her story,” he said. “There is no trace of Mickele Glenn found in the residence.”

Ritchie said all the evidence the State has comes from “the last story” of the woman. “When you examine the facts, you will see some problems,” Ritchie said. The woman gave police a “route and timeline that doesn’t match his cellphone data,” he said.

Cellphone data obtained for Glenn’s phone “doesn’t align with (the woman’s) version of events,” he said.

Ritchie said the voluminous amount of data that was obtained regarding Glenn’s phone showed only one time for about six seconds that “puts him anywhere near the vicinity of the victim’s house.”

Ritchie said, “Six seconds is not time enough to do anything.”

And the police did not investigate other men associated with the woman or the fact that the victim was a drug user who had cocaine metabolite in his system, Ritchie said. The woman provided assistance to Lewis at times because of “developmental problems, Ritchie said, adding that the woman gave Youngstown police the name of his client “to divert attention away from herself” as a suspect.

The trial resumes this morning in the courtroom of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito.