YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — While police still worked to piece together what led to a deadly fraternity house party, witnesses said Monday that an argument over a girl prompted two men to open fire on the crowd, sending party-goers into a panic, killing a student and injuring 11 other people.
Police said a dispute ensued Sunday night at the Omega Psi Phi fraternity house; one man was thrown out of the party and the other followed. They returned sometime later and began spraying bullets into the crowd, police said. Youngstown State University senior Jamail Johnson, 25, was killed. Police arrested two men that evening.
Investigators did not know Monday what the initial argument was about and were searching for a motive, but people at the party told a friend of Johnson's who was sleeping at the house that the gunmen had argued with others over a girl earlier in the evening. Isaiah Lee, 19, said his friend was trying to defuse the situation when the shots rang out.
"He was trying to be a hero," Lee said. "He was trying to get them out of there so nothing would happen, no fight."
Youngstown police were trying to determine if disturbances at another fraternity party and a Youngstown club the same night were related to the shootings
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