16-year-old killed in Toledo shooting

Sabrina Evans TOLEDO — said her nephew, 16-yearold Lamitrias White, was a good, sweet, goofy kid.

But around 2 a.m. on Monday morning, the unexpected happened. Evans’ sister Rashaunda Scott called — Scott had just been told her son Lamitrias was killed late Sunday night.

The rising sophomore at Waite High School spent the afternoon playing basketball with his cousins before he was shot and killed.

Toledo Police are investigating the North Toledo shooting, which also injured 16-year-old Rashaud Thompson and 17-year-old Maurice Rayford, a cousin of the White youth.

Officers responded to the 500 block of Spring Street at about 10:59 p.m. on a report of shots fired.

Upon arrival, officers found three people shot.

Charles Matthews, a longtime Spring Street resident, said he arrived home around 11 p.m. and saw a boy lying on a porch across the street. The boy was crying out for help, Matthews said.

“This was the first serious violence on this street that I know of,” he added.

Another neighbor, James Jones, lives around the corner from the site of the shooting.

He said he saw two boys running and one on a bike race by shortly after 11 p.m.

Lamitrias was treated at the scene and transported to Mercy Health St. Vincent Hospital, where he later died. His family gathered in the hospital parking lot when they heard the news.

He grew up in the area where the shooting occurred. “He’s walked that neighborhood all his life,” Evans said.

And as far as anyone in the family knew, he wasn’t involved in any gang activity.

Like many boys his age, Lamitrias spent most of his time playing video games and shooting hoops, his aunt said.