Toledo man shot to death in parked car
While all the circumstances of this shooting are not known, what IS known is that the "fundamental nature of a motor vehicle" does not provide a person an adequate means of self-defense, no matter what the Ohio State Highway Patrol bureaucrats say.
Toledo police seek clues in shooting death
Toledo Blade
November 19, 2003
Kenneth Allen Young was shot to death in the neighborhood where he grew up.
Now, his family and Toledo police want to know who shot the 23-year-old as he sat in a car in central Toledo.
Young, 23, of 1915 Walnut St., suffered two gunshot wounds: one to his head, the other to his lower right chest, said Dr. Diane Barnett, a Lucas County deputy coroner, after an autopsy yesterday.
The bullets went through his body and were not recovered during the autopsy. Both wounds were sustained at very close range, Dr. Barnett said in a statement. She ruled his death a homicide.
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Police were sent to the area Monday night on a report of a man who was shot. They found Young’s body in the driver’s seat of the car, which was parked in the driveway at 325 Rockingham St. Young, who was found about 8:35 p.m., was dead at the scene.
Police have interviewed some people but have no suspects. No murder weapon was found.
Lt. Rick Reed declined comment on a motive. He said investigators are trying to piece together what took place the night of the shooting. Detectives aren’t saying why Young was in the area. However, he grew up there and has friends in the area.
"Somebody had to see something. The street isn’t much of a ghost town," said Loren Young, the victim’s first cousin.
Loren Young said he doesn’t know why someone would want to kill his cousin, whom he called an "average Joe" who liked to hang out and reminisce about things that happened when they were young.
"He didn’t deserve it," Loren Young said.
Loren Young said his cousin graduated from high school and was in between jobs. Kenneth Young leaves behind a 5-year-old daughter, his parents, and two brothers, his cousin said.
Police Chief Mike Navarre said there have been 23 deaths in the city this year ruled homicides. However, he is counting only 19 of them in the murder category in this year’s FBI Uniform Crime Report.
The four deaths he won’t count include a premature baby left on a bed by his teenage mother, a justifiable shooting by police, the death of a man who was beaten 15 years ago, and a woman who died of a heart attack during a struggle.
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