Frat Party Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 11 Injured in Ohio
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (The Blaze/AP) — Police say they’re searching for two suspects in a shooting at an Ohio house that killed one student and injured 11 people, including six students, just north of the Youngstown State University campus.
Youngstown police Chief Jimmy Hughes says the suspected gunmen were involved in a dispute at a party hosted by the Omega Psi Phi fraternity before the shooting early Sunday morning. He says the pair left, then returned and began firing outside the house, which was crowded with 50 or more people, some as young as 17.
Police were called to the scene at 3:39 a.m. where shots had been fired “indiscriminately” from outside the house. Authorities found multiple shell casings from two semiautomatic handguns, one a .40-caliber and the other a .45-caliber, Hughes said.
There have been no arrests made yet, but Hughes says investigators are working to positively identify the two shooters based on eyewitness accounts. He expects to have arrest warrants by the end of the day and “hopefully, we’ll have them in custody soon after that,” Hughes added.
Police say the men have ties to the area, noting they are not believed to be students at the university. “There were some unhappy guests. People at the party recognized them. Two of them were ejected,” the chief said.
The scene’s one fatality — 25-year-old Jamail Johnson of nearby Girard, Ohio — was reportedly shot once in the back of the head and several times across his lower body.
A spokeswoman for the nearby St. Elizabeth Health Center said eight of the 11 who were injured were treated and released by Sunday afternoon but was unable to release the conditions of the other three.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich issued a statement saying he was “shocked and saddened” by the shooting and offered state resources to the university and law enforcement. “I join all Ohioans in expressing my deepest sympathy to the victims, their families and to the entire university community,” he said.
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BB671
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 1:55pmSeton Hall, September 2010!!!! Same story, scenario, suspects, victims, reactions, ect. Its a hard knock life for those who are trying to get an education while having to associate with thugs and punks like these. Guys can not get into a Frat party for which they are not affiliated with, no matter what! Deal with it!! To be so devastated that you must kill over this is unimaginable! I am willing to bet that the shooter or shooters were know to law enforcement and have extensive criminal records! I have been right on all the other assumptions!!! I too will pray for the victims family!
Report Post »Back To Reality
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 1:10pmReally? You removed my comment about working in Youngstown as a paramedic and seeing this all the time?
Report Post »steve5150
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 10:45amI wonder win Al Sharpton will be arriving in Ohio and exactly who he intends to blame?
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 9:13amLiberals or conservatives?
Report Post »mikemanners11
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 8:52amIf these kids were in their rooms studying this NEVER would have happened.
Drugs and Alcohol at a house party? And you pinheads are wondering why something like this happened?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 8:11amWhy is there a 17 year old victim at a Frat party?? Why too is there a 31 year old victim there? (Yes I do understand that there should actually be no victims – tragic that there are) I’m just wondering about the age range of the Frat Party attendees. I would expect a range of 18 -22 or so (the general age for college students)
Report Post »blanco
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 7:13amHow do you answer when your little girl asks you why is it only black people who are always getting arrested?
Report Post »dantom
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 7:36amThat is a tough one.
Report Post »steve5150
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 10:47amTry the truth.
Report Post »hud
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:24pmIt’s hell to be observant in a PC world.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:22amIt’s too bad that something like this has to happen at a campus fraternity house.
My condolences to the families.
Report Post »dataway
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 10:17pmTake prayer out of school. Morality has gone down ever since!
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 10:32pmYep… And that’s what the liberals want. They need the welfare generation with no morals that will believe that crap they spew. Sad that they don’t think they need an education or should have to work for a living.
Report Post »ClockKing
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 10:00pmThe Q-Dogs, huh? Figures. They used to be honorable two or three generations ago, now they are ghetto.
Report Post »Obama2010
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 11:55amClockking……the men turned locals away it has nothing to do with the fraternity……getting kicked out is no reason to come back and shot up the place….U are so shortsighted
Report Post »MARGETALICA
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 11:15pmyou have it right-this was a party at the free ride frat -chock full of 17 year olds-under age drinkers charged 5 bucks after a pat down at the door. The press release has been sand blasted -haz mat teamed to prop up YSU’s image.The area of Youngstown right by this university would make Camdem N.J. look like Beverly Hills.A white man has been left in a wheel chair for life over another shooting at a frat house in 2005.This crime is 24-7 in ghetto gulag y-town.YSU is more concerned about the minority cash cow gov funding -and football than they are about maintaining standards and protecting the students that dont get their ghetto THUG on.The VIGALS will start and we will all have to pretend to pity the disfunctional culture that forces tax payers to pay for it and a hero is a person serving alcohol to 2o year old baby mama dramas that ditch a 9 month old baby to party all night at frat houses @3:30 am.The perps were invited left into this house and came back-they were known friends of these innocent students drinking grape soda and playing chess in the wee hours of the morning.ITS GHETTO- YSU GHETTO FAB STATUS.
Report Post »Paul G
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 8:46pmJamail Johnson…sounds like it’s those damn Swedes again lol
Report Post »mrlogan3
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 9:10amI love your respect for the deceased!
Report Post »yanki161
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 8:16pmSounds like they were particularly after the victim. God bless all their families.
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 8:01pmyes pray for the families,then pray people come back to faith.
Report Post »tblrk2006
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 7:09pmGreat……here comes the obama speech on guns. Guarantee these thugs that did the shooting aquired the pistols illegaly.
Report Post »Cincinnatus Dogood
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 8:41amYoungstowns is a rough place, lots of mafia. No jobs. This looks like gang violence.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 6:29pmUnfortunately this will just give more ammunition to the gun control freaks. Pray for the families and friends that it involves. But also pray for the two persons that did this. Because they will paying for it for a long time.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:37pm3:30 am, weekend, 50 people, frat house — nothing good can come from that combination.
Report Post »cmg456
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 6:34pmTrue. But it doesn’t normally end in murder.
Report Post »awizard
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:36pmNaw, come on guys … it‘s Bush’s fault …
Seriously, “Pray for the families”
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:32pmI pray for the families, too.
Always remember, however – it’s the guns fault.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:41pmWhat a crying shame for this to have happened to college students (or to anyone else, for that matter). This is a culture problem, not a gun problem.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 9:34pmSoon the left will narrow it down to a bullet problem and start attacking the ammunition industry. They’ll state that the 2nd amendment says nothing of bullets…..etc.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 8:06amI would venture a guess that the gun used was not a legal gun. I fail to comprehend the liberal idea that gun laws keep illegal activity somehow at bay. I would also like to know how many gun related crimes are committed with illegally obtained vs legally obtained guns (I have searched high & low and can find no numbers) I would also venture to say the the majority of guns crimes are committed with illegally obtained guns – which is probably why there are not stats for this – would blopw a huge hole in the liberal anti-gun talking points by illuminating that gun controll laws do nothing to dissuade criminals (hint to liberals – the term criminal should somehow come to bear – criminals will break the law no matter how many are written – that’s why they are called criminals – duh!!)
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:24pmPraying for all the familys. How long before msnbc blames it on Beck and Palin?
Report Post »ForeignWatcher
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 7:13pmHow does making the dead of an inocent guy a political issue feel for you? Does it work out?
Report Post »YOU are using him right here and now!
Carl1
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 8:32pmCarl1
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:24pm
Praying for all the familys. How long before msnbc blames it on Beck and Palin?
ForeignWatcher
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 7:13pm
How does making the dead of an inocent guy a political issue feel for you? Does it work out?
YOU are using him right here and now!
First of all, Waiting on the left to blame Beck and Palin is normal practice for the left. We are used to it. And was a joke for us who know how the left blames us for everything. We know how they are…. But guess it was above your humor level????? And if you read the first thing i typed? “I’m praying for the famlies” That‘s something i didn’t see from you? You don’t pray???? And you never hear it from the Liberal left? Guess they don’t know who GOD is? Now lighten up a little and go back to MSNBC.
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 9:36pmCARL1…..Not gonna be able to blame Palin or Beck on this one…unless black fraternities are big Beck fans.
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:22pmI guess we need to know where Glenn and Sarah were. I’m sure it will be turned that way.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 6:32pmJust guessing, but maybe football players or basketball players come into the picture,somehow. Probably were given athletic schlorships. Just sayin!
Report Post »ForeignWatcher
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 7:13pmHow about not trying to make this tragedy a political thing? Iike you two do?
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 7:21pmAnother reason for gun control!!!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-Am
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 7:57pmWalk: More people die from cars and your guy Obama is about to start killing old people. Start there if you want to save a lot more lives.
Report Post »hud
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:32pmNegros behaving badly seems to be a regular theme on The Blaze
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:35pmYou guys seriously need some new material.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:17pmHUD
Report Post »I am not sure skin color has anything to do with it. They are thugs, whether they are black or white, red or yellow. Thuggery is a frame of mind, not a skin color.
bikerr
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:21pmSad.Pray for the families.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:33pmSounds like “to whom it may concern” just firing into the house. A very sad tragedy for victims, families and friends of those involved. Another bad choice by two people that will effect many people.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 6:10pmWhen it’s all said and done, I’m sure this whole tragedy was over something really petty and stupid.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 1:59amHow do you process such stupidity, such evil. I have no idea who shot up the house, murdering one and damaging many others. I do know the good citizens of the area need to storm the jail ,drag their sorry asses out side to the appropriate tree.
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:03am‘Bout time to allow concealed carry on campus, ain’t it?
Report Post »TheRev1776
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 6:07amI live just on the side of the border with that city and state, let‘s say it’s not a place you or I would get caught at in the dark. I am rather surprised they stuck a very solid college in the middle of that war zone. Besides the crime the actual running of the city has left something to be desired. They are however trying to bring it back to life. Youngstown is known for it’s past with big Mafia ties. As for concealed carry, you can’t really do much when someone drives by and unloads on your walls. I would understand if they were face to face but the cowards took the easy road.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 1:42pmThis story has been “scrubbed” for political correctness.
Much is known about this fraternity, none will be reported.