WARREN — A Warren man has been jailed without bond in the fatal shooting of Damien Michael Williams on Tuesday night in a home on the northwest side of the city.

Serroyan Jubar Couto, 19, of Perkins Drive NW, was arraigned in Warren Municipal Court on a homicide charge in the death of Williams, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head.

Warren Municipal Judge Natasha Natale ordered the defendant held without bond.

The judge found that the defendant posed a substantial risk of serious physical harm to any person and the community.

Couto’s next court appearance is scheduled for April 9.

According to a Warren Police report, the incident occurred at 7:56 p.m. Tuesday when police were dispatched to the 400 block of School Street NW on a report of gunshots being heard.

Upon arrival, officers entered the residence and located the deceased victim.

A suspect was found inside the home and taken into custody before being transported to the Trumbull County jail.

This marks the city’s third homicide this year. There were seven homicides in the city last year.

PREVIOUS HOMICIDES

The city’s first homicide occurred Feb. 9 when Darrell Staggers of Warren was shot in the face inside a vehicle in the parking lot of Hodas Tobacco at the corner of Paige Avenue and Elm Road NE.

A 911 report stated a caller saw the man being shot inside the vehicle by another skinny man wearing all black who then fled the scene inside a red vehicle. The shooting happened at 12:20 p.m.

A caller to 911 from Hodas Tobacco said they had security video to give to police.

The windows of the vehicle Staggers was in had been shot out and shattered. There were also some bullet holes in the car.

The road on Paige Avenue had 17 yellow evidence markers where police took photos of the shell casings. Other callers to 911 reported that in addition to the red vehicle that fled the scene, a white vehicle parked behind the shooting scene also fled the location, heading toward Atlantic Street.

No arrests have been made in the homicide.

That same week, around 11 p.m. Feb. 11, Warren police responded to a call of shots fired at 1377 Mahoning Ave. NW and found 16-year-old Da’Mar McKinney of Youngstown with a gunshot wound in the parking lot of the apartment complex. The victim was transported by ambulance to St. Joseph Warren Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

About eight hours later, around 7 a.m. Feb. 12, several suspects were detained and later questioned by police. A search warrant was obtained for an apartment in the complex and evidence was recovered.

Two 18-year-old suspects — Ashaud Duane Lee Johnson and Willis Leroy Smith IV — were indicted Feb. 18 by a Trumbull County grand jury. Smith is charged with aggravated murder with a firearm specification and tampering with evidence. Johnson is charged with aggravated murder with a firearm specification, two counts of tampering with evidence and one count of receiving stolen property-motor vehicle, according to court records.

Smith is set for a pretrial before Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Cynthia Wescott on April 8. Johnson is set for a pretrial April 14 before Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Sarah Kovoor.