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LeTricia Jones of Youngstown is shown in a photo with her son, John Pettiford III, whom she called Bingo. He was murdered Jan. 2 in the city, the second homicide in the city in the first two days of the new year.
YOUNGSTOWN LeTricia Jones of Youngstown has lost three sons to violence in the city since 1993, the latest being John A. Pettiford III, 34, who was shot to death Jan. 2 one of the first two homicides of the new year.
John, whom she called Bingo, came to visit her every day and also visited his two children “every day,” she said.
YOUNGSTOWN Just two days into 2021, the city has its second shooting death victim.
About 2:30 p.m. Saturday, officers were called for a two-car crash at Wirt Street and Delaware Avenue on the North Side. When officers arrived, they found one of the drivers, a male in his 30s, had been shot.
He was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, but died from his wounds.
A police report states he had been shot elsewhere but then traveled northbound on Wirt, where he lost control and crashed into another vehicle near Delaware Avenue.
An occupant of the vehicle hit by the victim suffered only minor injuries. Officers and detectives are investigating the area to find where the victim was shot.