WARREN — A Tod Avenue resident was found shot at 10:46 p.m. Wednesday during a traffic stop in the 1700 block of Oak Street SW.

The man later died and the case is being investigated as a homicide, according to police.

Police found Mark C. Dixon Jr., 29, 1190 Tod Ave. SW, shot and bleeding profusely after an officer stopped a gray 2012 Jeep at the corner of West Market and South streets because it was being driven at a high speed on Highland Avenue.

Once pulled over, the driver got out and immediately told the officer there was a man in the vehicle with a bullet wound.

The driver was escorted to Trumbull Regional Medical Center.

Dixon Jr. was taken to the operating room, where medical staff worked on him for about 45 minutes, before declaring him deceased.

Witnesses were taken to the Warren Police Department to be interviewed.

Councilwoman Cheryl Saffold, D-6th Ward, who described witnessing police officers entering a home on the 1700 block of Oak Street, where she was told Dixon Jr. was shot, said there have been multiple homicides in her ward in the last three years.

“I’m asking the administration to offer monetary rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone that murdered any city resident,” Saffold said. “We have had so many people killed in our city whose murders that have not been solved. We need some kind of jump start to hopefully solve some of these murders.”

Saffold said she will be having a press conference with the management of the Warren Woods Apartment, which is expected to offer a reward for the November beating of an elderly resident by a group of juveniles.

Dixon is the fifth homicide of the year in Warren and the second this month.

A man was found shot to death early March 1 inside a home at 239 Homewood Ave. SE. The initial 911 call came in at 7:39 a.m. as a possible overdose, but after further investigation, police discovered the man had suffered a gunshot wound, according to a police report. The death is being investigated as a homicide, the report states.

The city recorded its first homicide of 2020 on New Year’s Day when Annie Miller, 86, was found dead inside her home at 366 Douglas St. NW following a call from her daughter asking police to check on her because her daughter could not reach her. The woman had been shot and neighbors reported hearing multiple gunshots around 2 a.m. Jan. 1, according to a police report.

On Jan. 27, Timothy Allen Jr., 34, 1584 Ferndale Ave. SW, was found shot to death outside of a vehicle on Martin Street, which is close to where the shooting occurred near 599 Lane Drive at the Hampshire House apartments.

Those homicides remain unsolved. However, police did make an arrest in the Feb. 10 stabbing death of 27-year-old Marlon D. Smith. Walter L. Toles, 54, of Braceville, was indicted Feb. 13 in a special Trumbull County grand jury report on charges of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery in connection to Smith’s death.

Smith was found by his mother bleeding on the floor of his home at 236 Oriole Place SW, Warren. Smith was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

The Trumbull County Coroner’s office ruled Smith’s death a homicide from a stab wound to the neck.

Warren police officers said they were able to make a quick arrest because of evidence at the scene and the cooperation of witnesses.

Warren had eight homicides last year.