YOUNGSTOWN — Jacob A. Jackson, 22, of Spring Street in Struthers, was indicted Tuesday on charges of involuntary manslaughter and felony child endangering in the Aug. 15 shooting death of his 3-year-old son, Gionni A. Jackson.

Jackson is likely to be arraigned in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in the coming weeks.

The involuntary manslaughter is a first-degree felony, punishable by up to about 11 years in prison if convicted. The child endangering could add more prison time if convicted.

The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office ruled the boy’s death an accident.

A narrative with the death certificate states Gionni died after shooting himself with his father’s gun in the family’s Spring Street home. The boy had just turned 3 five days earlier.

The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office carried out the investigation of the boy’s death at the request of the Struthers Police Department because a Struthers officer is Gionni’s grandfather.

Struthers police Capt. D.J. Aldish said shortly after the shooting that the incident involved an “unsecured firearm in a home. And the worst possible thing happened, and a child got a hold of it.”

The narrative states officers were called to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital on Aug. 15 for a boy with a gunshot wound.

Aldish advised that the boy was at his home on Spring Street when he shot himself using an unsecured firearm. His father drove him to the hospital, and the boy died a short time later, the report states.

Both of the boy’s parents were home at the time the boy was shot but did not witness it, the report states.

Aldish reported that a loaded handgun was found near blood in a rear bedroom of the home. An autopsy was performed by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A coroner’s office investigator spoke with Jacob Jackson, who said he was getting ready to go to his mother’s house to retrieve his gun holster. About noon, he set his handgun on the dresser so he could use the bathroom. The dresser was about waist-high. Jackson reported that Gionni’s mother was doing her hair in the bedroom and Gionni was behind her.

Jackson said he was using the bathroom with the door open when he heard a pop and saw Gionni fall to the floor.

Jackson picked Gionni up and ran outside to get help. He flagged down a car to take them to the hospital, the report states.

A LifeTRANS ambulance report noted that on that afternoon, paramedics were called to a parking lot at Mathews Road and South Avenue in Boardman at 12:15 p.m. When they arrived, they found the boy without a pulse with a bystander’s shirt wrapped around his head.

Jackson reported that he was driving his son to the hospital but pulled into a parking lot because the boy “went unconscious and stopped breathing,” the report states.

The boy remained unresponsive at the hospital, arriving at 12:38 p.m.

Resuscitative efforts were not successful, the report states, and he was pronounced dead at 12:39 p.m.

SEPARATE CHILD CASE

In a separate child-related case out of Struthers, two women were indicted Tuesday on child endangering and other offenses.

Kamille A. Hibbitt, 33, of Struthers, was indicted on two felony counts of child endangering, one misdemeanor count of child endangering and one misdemeanor count of domestic violence.

Essence L. Revely, 30, of the same address in Struthers, was indicted on two felony counts of child endangering, one felony count of tampering with evidence, and single misdemeanor counts of child endangering and domestic violence.

If each woman were to be convicted on the felony child endangering, they could get several years in prison.

Charges were filed against the women after they brought a child to Akron Children’s Boardman campus for a 7-year-old child who was “brought in by his mother with bruises throughout his body and was unconscious,” according to a Struthers police report.

The report stated that an officer was advised by hospital staff that the child “had life-threatening injuries and was going to need to be transported to Akron Children’s main campus via Life Flight.”

A criminal complaint filed in Struthers Municipal Court on Oct. 16, at the time charges were first filed against the women, states that Hibbitt, mother of the child, carried the child into Akron Children’s about 12:15 p.m. Oct. 14.

The child was “cold to the touch, unresponsive and (the child’s) pupils were nonreactive.” Medical personnel used blankets and heated IV fluids and other methods to raise the child’s core body temperature.

The document stated that staff at the hospital described the case as “one of the most critical they had ever encountered.” The child also was severely malnourished.

Revely, who lives with Hibbitt, drove Hibbitt and the child to the hospital and then left with another child of Hibbitt, the document states.

Struthers police detectives interviewed Hibbitt and Revely. Hibbitt stated she is the sole caretaker for both of her children and that the injured child had been “throwing” himself or herself “to the floor.”

Hibbitt said she supplemented the child’s diet with protein powder and Ensure, but ran out after using all of her allotted food benefits.

Revely told detectives she has been a close friend of Hibbitt for about 20 years and admitted that some of the injuries took place while she was watching the child.

She said she and Hibbitt feared taking the child for medical care until bruising healed for fear that they would be accused of child abuse, the document states.

Others indicted Tuesday were:

• Wayne Martin, 44, Meadowbrook Avenue, Poland, failure to fulfill violent offender database duties.

• Nicholas Kover, 33, McCartney Road, Lowellville, receiving stolen property.

• Jonathon Jones, 29, Indian Run Drive, Canfield, strangulation, misdemeanor domestic violence, trespass in a habitation when a person is present or likely to be present and misdemeanor criminal trespass.

• Michael R. Wells, 44, Youngstown Warren Road, Niles, receiving stolen property.

• Taira L. Leflore, 33, Eddie Street, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and two misdemeanor counts of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them — OVI.

• Andrew Scott, 29, Mahoning County jail, receiving stolen property.

• Marquise S. Burress, 31, West Ohio Avenue, Sebring, breaking and entering.

• Conovas P. Crawford, 38, Mahoning County jail, burglary.

• Alyssa D. Shaffer, 28, Halls Heights Avenue, receiving stolen property, aggravated drug possession and cocaine possession.

• Rudolph Alford, 74, East Warren Avenue, cocaine possession and tampering with evidence.

• Ja’Mek Clarett, 21, Mohawk Avenue, tampering with evidence and cocaine possession.

The grand jury refused to indict the following people: Tyrell Howell, Brandon Pine and Chardia Lightfoot.