WARREN — Warren police detectives are investigating the May 3 shooting death of 26-year-old Trevor Hall as a homicide.

Hall’s body was found around 10:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Third Street SW. Before succumbing to gunshots, Hall had endured five years of legal problems and personal tragedy.

According to Kathleen Meszaros, chief forensic investigator for the Trumbull County Coroner’s Office, an autopsy was performed on Hall, whose death was ruled a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds.

Warren police identified Hall, 1129 Buena Vista Ave., as the shooting victim after officers responded to a call about shots being fired in the area. He was pronounced dead by an emergency medical services team.

Police also questioned neighbors in the area, a report states.

This is the second tragedy in the Hall family within three years.

On May 17, 2017, Hall’s mother, Eileen Marie Hahn, 47, formerly of Garrettsville, died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. Hahn was a passenger on Scott Quiggle’s vehicle when he crashed on the Madison Avenue Expressway in Youngstown. Quiggle, who was injured in the crash, served an 18-month probation after pleading guilty to negligent homicide before Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth Kolby, who also fined him $500.

Even though Quiggle apologized for the crash, which was determined by police to be an accident, Hall at the time had trouble coming to terms with his mother’s death.

“It’s not right … I really don’t know what to say because no matter what I say, my mom is gone, and I lost her,” Hall told reporters after Quiggle’s case was closed.

She worked for the Mazcool Auto Outlet in Warren and about six months before her accident, Hahn joined the law office of attorney Gary Rich.

“She was such a sweet lady, who loved life, a loving mother and grandmother,” Rich said.

Rich said the accident was most tragic, “a real shock,” and he tried to help the family, which included Hall and his sister.

“This was all a true tragedy,” Rich said. “The kids just unraveled after she left us. It’s too bad because Trevor was a handsome, smart kid.”

Hall himself ran afoul from the law in August 2015 when he was the ring leader of an ATV rally in the city of Warren.

Court records show Hall pleaded guilty April 25, 2016, before Common Pleas Judge Peter J. Kontos to two counts of failure to comply with a signal or order of a police officer and receiving stolen property. He was given five years of probation on July 18, 2015.

Hall was accused of using social media to organize the Aug. 30, 2015, rally as part of the “Bikes Up, Guns Down” protest and Bike Life Cleveland. Similar events were held in other cities on that day. The group started with about 40 participants and grew to more than 70 people riding off-road vehicles and motorized dirt bikes not permitted on roads. Police accused the drivers of running red lights, blocking lanes, making obscene gestures and driving in the wrong lanes.

Six other people, who all were convicted of charges of obstructing official business in connection to the rally that took place in Warren, Liberty, Howland, Niles and Champion, were given probation.

Hall then was indicted March 1, 2017, on five counts of receiving stolen property. That indictment triggered a probation violation in his ATV case, which netted Hall a 12-month jail sentence.

The receiving stolen property charges stemmed from an investigation by the Trumbull County Sheriff’s office into a stolen gun from a Howland home in January 2017.

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