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WARREN -- The U.S. Marshals Service Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force issued a murder warrant Friday night for Kemari James.
James, 27 , Parkman Road SW, is wanted in connection to the early Friday shooting death of La'Nesha Workman, 26, 1637 Ogden Ave. NW.
Workman, who police said was pregnant, was found dead in her home after a person called 911 to report a man showed up at her home and told her someone was shooting at his house up the street from the caller. The man told another neighbor someone killed his girlfriend. When Warren police arrived at the Ogden NW home, they found two children in the house crying, according to the call log. Children services workers were called to the scene.
James, who Marshals said should be considered armed and dangerous, has been booked into the jail 10 times. He most recently was released Feb. 1 after posting a $3,500 bond on drug possession charges. James was on supervised parole after being released in October from state prison following convictions in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. He still had three years and nine months left of supervision, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
James most recently served one year in state prison for having weapons while under disability, in 2014. He was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to aggravated burglary, two counts of kidnapping and felonious assault, all with firearm specifications.
His other arrests were on charges involving weapons, drugs, domestic violence, burglary and aggravated arson.
According to news archives, in 2013, James held a woman and her two children against her will and put a gun to her head after breaking into her home. That is the case that led to the four-year sentence. In 2012, James was accused of setting fire to a woman's house by throwing something flammable inside, although a Trumbull County grand jury declined to indict him on aggravated arson charges.
Warren police classified Workman's death as a homicide and are continuing the investigation. It is the city's eighth homicide of the year -- the same number in all of 2019, according to records.
The first homicide was the Jan. 1 shooting death of Annie Miller, 86.
The most recent murder occurred April 6 when Darryl Van Jackson, 30, was killed in a drive-by shooting on Kenmore Avenue.
The Trumbull County Coroner's Office will conduct an autopsy on Workman.