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Published:Saturday, June 28, 2008
Police are trying to establish a timeline of where the victim had been.
STAFF REPORT
YOUNGSTOWN — The man found shot to death in a wooded area near Commonwealth Avenue on the East Side has been identified by the coroner as 20-year-old Brandon S. “Bezee” Rowe.
Rowe’s last known address was on Wilcox Street.
A woman using a pathway through the woods to get to her Berkley Avenue home around 5:45 a.m. Friday discovered the body face down in the dirt between Commonwealth and Kimmel Avenue.
First officers on the scene found the victim in a puddle of blood and two shell casings nearby.
Detectives who checked the pathway just north of the body found several casings and shoe impressions in the moist dirt. It had rained overnight.
Gunfire was heard between 3 and 4 a.m. Friday in the area where the homicide victim was later found, reports show.
Coroner’s investigator Rick Jamrozik said Rowe had been shot several times in the head, torso and pelvis.
The case is being investigated by Detective Sgt. Ron Rodway.
Lt. Mark Milstead said Rodway was out Friday trying to track down Rowe’s girlfriend and others to establish a timeline of where the victim had been. Milstead said no motive or suspects had emerged.
The witness told police that the body was not there when she used the path around 10:30 p.m. Thursday to walk to her mother’s house on Republic Avenue. When she came upon the man in the morning, she called out, “Sir, are you OK?” and then, after getting no response, returned to her mother’s house. The witness’s brother then went to check on the man — to see if he was asleep or deceased — and returned to call police.
Capt. Kenneth Centorame, chief of detectives, said there was no identification, keys, drugs or coins on the victim. No car was found, either.
Milstead said Rodway’s investigation led to the identity.
The shooting death is the city’s 16th homicide of the year. At this time last year, the city had recorded 15 homicides.
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its a shame that the people in youngstown dont value life.what is it the WATER?
What a tragic shame!
Your right sexyme so little value to life.
Let's hope the responsible person/persons are found & held accountable.
My Condolences go out to the family!
I no longer live in Youngstown and over the past week have monitored this story because this young man was related to me... and I might add he was very much loved. I have been totally amazed that the only things that have been written was the finding of his body. No other follow ups on the young man's murder. Nothing on an investgation into his death. Just nothing! This young man has a family who is devastated by his murder. His funeral was yesterday and as I sat in the funeral I looked around the rather large church facility and there were no seats left. There were people in the hallway and standing in the back of the church. The life of the mother of this young man has been horrifically changed. Her child has been brutally murdered and she is left with no answers. There is no words to explain the sounds that she uttered in greif as she looked into the casket and could not see a murdered man..no...she only saw her baby boy...dead. He was deeply loved. Deeply loved. Please Vindy...look into things for this family. Make Brandon a priority. He was a human being who is still, even in death, so very much loved.
I ask that you would do some follow-up articles if nothing else but to give this young man some identity to the public. We as a nation have gotten so desensitized to homicide and things of this nature to the point that it is common practice to "move on" without the emotions that should be attached to a painful situation such as this.
There is speculations that this young man was in to things that he should not have been in. This may be the case but, someone said at the funeral "don't judge the man by the way he died". There have been a number of article in the news regarding the police officer who was killed. His life was worthy of investagation and multiple publications. Why not this Young man? Again..."don't judge the man by the way he died".
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