Arrest made in Boardman shooting
BOARDMAN — The man police say shot at two women and caused a crash on Market Street has been arrested.
In a follow-up to a news release sent last week, identifying Eugene G. Thompkins, 35, of Youngstown, as the suspected shooter, Boardman police Chief Todd Werth said that Thompkins turned himself in on Monday afternoon.
Thompkins is charged with two counts of attempted murder, four counts of felonious assault and one count of improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation. The investigation continues of other involved individuals who were in the vehicle with Thompkins at the time of the shooting.
Anyone with information related to the case is asked to call Boardman police at 330-726-4144.
Police did not say exactly how they determined Thompkins to be the primary suspect, but the police report states that in the immediate aftermath of the July 11 shooting, investigators went to the gas station where the confrontation between the men and women began, and they were able to view the station’s security camera video, which showed four men, including one matching the description of the shooter, getting into a black Chevrolet sedan that also matched the victim and witness descriptions.
The report states that the video also showed a temporary tag in the upper left of the rear window, and police determined that it was registered to someone in Campbell.
A Flock license plate camera on South Avenue captured that same vehicle passing by it three times that day, between 4:18 p.m. and 7:24 p.m. A Flock camera along Interstate 680 also picked up the vehicle on July 4.
The driver was shot in the wrist and her passenger’s face was injured by shattering glass. Two children who were in the car, ages 1 and 4, were not injured in the incident. The women were able to drive away from the shooter, but crashed and overturned at Meadowbrook and Market.
Witnesses on Gertrude Avenue told police they saw a man in a red and black hoodie leaning out of a sedan and shooting at the SUV. One of the bullets struck one witness’s Gertrude Avenue home.
Thompkins criminal record shows at least seven convictions for felony offenses in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court since 2009. Most of those involved either drugs or improper possession of a firearm. He is also tied to at least 23 cases, with multiple convictions, in Youngstown Municipal Court during the same time period.
Those cases include two counts of breaking and entering, multiple counts of drug possession, multiple counts of having weapons under disability, and domestic violence, along with various misdemeanors and traffic offenses.


