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BCI investigating officer-related shooting

WARREN — The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation was called out to an officer-involved shooting in the city Friday afternoon.

The shooting, which happened in a dead-end corner of Charles Avenue SE, left that portion of the road blocked off with crime scene tape. Warren Police Capt. Robert Massucci said no officers were injured and two people were transported to the hospital, but he refused to answer any more questions.

Jacob Conde, whose residence borders the crime scene and had tape wrapped around one of his trees, said he was still waking up and sitting on his couch when he first heard tires squealing.

“I heard screaming and yelling, back and forth screaming, yelling — I guess it was the cop and the guy, and then I heard gunshots being fired,” Conde said. “They’re doing construction over on 422, so I heard the nailgun they were using, and it was interspersed with the gunshots.”

“At first, I was a little confused, and I was like, ‘No, some of those were very close and very gunshotty,” he added, noting that it started around 11:30 a.m.

It’s the second officer-related shooting in Trumbull County this year, with the first one happening in Howland in mid-February.

That shooting, which occurred in front of the former Wahaka Taco restaurant and across from the township fire and police stations on Niles Cortland Road NE, left a man wounded and a portion of the road closed between East Market and High streets for several hours.

A news release from the department confirmed no officers were injured, adding that BCI was conducting an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.

Collin Scott Gilmore, 25, of Toronto, was arraigned days later on a felony charge of inducing panic in Warren Municipal Court. He was indicted on the charge by a Trumbull County grand jury April 1, according to Trumbull County court records.

Gilmore was released from jail on April 23, but his case remains open in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court with a jury trial set for June 24, court records show.

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