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Suspect indicted in officer shooting

AUSTINTOWN — A man has been charged in connection with an officer-involved shooting.

Austintown Police Chief Valorie Delmont stated that Jacob Hall, 33, of Austintown, is in police custody at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital awaiting discharge.

He was indicted Thursday by a Mahoning County grand jury on one count of discharging a firearm at or into a habitation, a second-degree felony, and inducing panic, a fourth-degree felony. Hall is also charged with aggravated menacing and using a weapon while intoxicated, both first-degree misdemeanors. His case was bound over to Mahoning County Common Pleas Court from Mahoning County Austintown Court.

A press release from Delmont also stated Austintown completed its investigation last Thursday and referred the case to the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office.

The charges stem from a Nov. 30 altercation in which Hall was shot by police.

A police report states that police responded to Hall’s Yorkshire Boulevard home about 10:30 p.m. and found him standing outside, making “suicidal and homicidal threats.” The report states he eventually fired multiple shots and the officer returned fire, hitting Hall.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation took over the investigation into the officer-involved shooting, and the officer remains on paid leave. Thursday’s press release states that BCI’s investigation is ongoing.

Court records show that in 2012, he pleaded guilty or no contest to disorderly conduct, amended down from an assault charge. In 2013, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor drug charges, and last year a charge of domestic violence threats was dismissed.

In 2013, he also had a series of traffic violations, including an OVI conviction and he pleaded guilty to a failure to control charge, amended down from hit-skip after a crash that caused injuries to the other person.

Township police continue to investigate a shooting at Compass West Apartments on Dec. 3. That shooting, which may have been the result of an attempted robbery set-up, left one man in critical condition.

Mikklo Delgado, 23, of Youngstown, is charged with felonious assault and improperly discharging a firearm into a habitation, both second-degree felonies; tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; inducing panic, a fourth-degree felony; and possession of criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony. He remains in the Mahoning County jail on a $500,000 cash or surety bond.

The police report states that the men were both in Apartment 7 at 1001 Compass West and left — possibly after being tipped off that one or the other was being set up for a robbery — then exchanged gunfire in the hallway of the building.

The other man was in critical condition, and police have not provided any update on his status. A press release from last week states that more charges and arrests may be coming in that case.

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