YOUNGSTOWN Police are investigating the shooting death of a 27-year-old woman on the city’s North Side.
Police said Jolonda Murry died Saturday at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital from a shooting on Halleck Street between Logan Avenue and Elm Street. The shooting happened at 5:25 a.m. Dec. 22 in a car.
An unnamed person arrested on an unrelated charge is being held in the Mahoning County jail. Police detectives plan to file charges for the homicide after talking with Jeff Limbian, the city law director.
Police said another woman was in the car when the shooting occurred. She is not a suspect, according to police, but police want to talk to her about the homicide. She is described as a thin black woman in her 30s who is possibly pregnant, according to a news release.
Dec 28, 2020
YOUNGSTOWN The woman who was shot last week as she was driving in a car about 5:30 a.m. Dec. 22 on Halleck Avenue between Logan Avenue and Elm Street on the city’s North Side has died.
A news release by the Youngstown Police Department states that Jolanda Murry, 27, died on Saturday of her injuries at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
The death is the city’s 28th homicide of 2020.
Chief of Detectives Capt. Brad Blackburn said a suspect, whose name is not being released by police at this time, has been arrested on unrelated charges and is being held in Mahoning County jail. Blackburn said detectives plan on filing charges for the homicide this afternoon after conferring with the city prosecutor.
YOUNGSTOWN – Mercy Health-Youngstown received its first doses today of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Moderna Pharmaceuticals.
The hospital system will begin immunizing employees this afternoon.
The vaccine needs to be given in two doses.
Mercy Health operates St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital and St. Joseph Warren Hospital.
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Dec 23, 2020
YOUNGSTOWN Robert A. Manigault, 25, of North Bon Air Avenue is facing charges after police chased him and others in a car, then chased him on foot and arrested him after finding him in a garbage can, according to a police report.
Later they had to chase him again at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital and captured him again.
Police were called to Big A’s store, 2525 Glenwood Ave., regarding a stolen car. They found a city man yelling at three unknown men standing near a vehicle, the report states.
The men got into the vehicle and fled on Glenwood with police following with lights and sirens. The vehicle crashed into the front porch of a house of a home in the 300 block of Ravenwood Avenue, and the corner of another house on Ravenwood, police records state.
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Mercy Health pharmacy technician Donna Stoyanov, left, inspects a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Moderna Pharmaceuticals at St. Elizabeth Hospital on Tuesday as Mercy Health pharmacy manager William Johnson looks on.
Mercy Health-Youngstown, which operates three Mahoning Valley hospitals, has received its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The 4,800 doses are for Mercy Health’s medical staff and employees.
The vaccine, which needs to be given in two doses, arrived Tuesday with about 400 employees immunized that day, said Dr. James Kravec, Mercy Health’s chief clinical officer and Mahoning County Public Health’s medical director.