Police looking for shooting suspects

Police are ASHTABULA — on the lookout for two Ashtabula men charged in connection with last month’s shooting on Ogden Avenue, injuring a 74-yearold man.

Arrest warrants were issued Wednesday for Terrance M. Williams, 20, and Jose Arnaldo Ramos Colon, age unavailable, each charged with complicity in the discharge of a firearm at or in a habitation, and complicity in felonious assault.

The charges stem from a Feb. 28 incident in the 5900 block of Ogden Avenue, according to police reports.

The victim is recovering from a gunshot wound to his back. He told police he and his wife were awakened at 1:52 a.m. by the sound of gunshots.

“Williams and Colon should be considered armed and dangerous,” Chief Robert Stell said Thursday in a prepared statement.

Police have said they believe this shooting could be in retaliation for another shooting that occurred Feb. 27 on West Avenue near West 19th Street. No one was shot, but a man went to Ashtabula County Medical Center with minor injuries he received from a spray of broken car window glass, police said.

The victim was the passenger in the front seat of a northbound vehicle on West Avenue when a second vehicle pulled up alongside the victim’s vehicle, also going north. The driver of the second car, 22-year-old Jonah Lacey, is believed to have fired gunshots into the passenger side of the victim’s vehicle, striking the car several times, Stell said.

Officers caught up with Lacey a few hours later.

Lacey now faces three counts of felonious assault, one count of failure to comply, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of improper handling of a firearm, a court official said.

He remains in jail on a $200,000 cash or surety bond, according to court records.

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