Staff report

WARREN — The city police department confirmed a second death following a violent weekend in the city, with 34-year-old Choice D. Washington succumbing to injuries sustained in a shooting early Aug. 3.

According to a Warren police report, Washington was struck in the forehead around 2:40 a.m. Sunday on Scott Street NE. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital Wednesday.

The shooting was one of three reported in Warren over the weekend, which left one other person dead and three wounded.

It was the second fatal shooting in Warren last weekend, as police also reported during a Tuesday press conference the death of a 31-year-old Warren man in a separate shooting.

David Lee Owens III was the first death confirmed in last weekend’s shootings. He was shot and killed early Sunday morning outside the Convenient Food Mart on Elm Road NE, according to police.

Two men were shot in the store’s parking lot, with Owens pronounced dead at the hospital and another man sustaining non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting, classified as aggravated murder and felonious assault, stemmed from an argument during a dice game that escalated into gunfire around 5:14 a.m., police said.

A store employee who witnessed the shooting described the rapid escalation from a casual gathering to deadly violence.

On Thursday, city officials boarded up the Convenient Food Mart, calling it a “nuisance” and a focal point for illegal activity, citing evidence that the store was open and selling liquor in violation of an agreement with the city to not do so between 2 and 4 a.m.

A third shooting occurred earlier Saturday on Phillips Drive SW, where a woman was shot in both legs.

Police said during Tuesday’s news conference that David Hollie was apprehended following a police pursuit in Niles after fleeing the scene on Scott Street NE in a stolen sedan, but no formal criminal charges related to the shooting have been filed yet.

Police also said there has been “near zero” assistance from the public in the convenience store shooting, despite surveillance footage showing multiple people present.