A man accused of shooting four people, including a four-year-old child, in Akron’s Goodyear Heights neighborhood Saturday was taken into custody the following day, according to a press release from the Akron Police Department.
Delrico Carmona Jr., 25, was arrested on Sunday at his Canton home by the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force on four counts of felonious assault for the four non-fatal shootings.
Akron police officers responded to the 800 block of Morningview Avenue at 7:41 p.m. Saturday and discovered four people were shot, according to a department press release. The victims, police said, include a four-year-old child and three adults ranging in age from 33 to 52. The 33-year-old was in critical condition as of Monday.
The APD didn’t release Carmona’s motive or name the shooting victims, but a police report obtained by Signal Akron details that all three of the adults were women – aged 33, 49 and 52 and that the four year old was a boy. One of the shooting victims is Carmona’s mother — the connection to the other three people he is accused of shooting, if any, is unclear.
Court records indicate that Carmona was quickly identified as the suspect. A warrant for his arrest was issued at 2:11 a.m. on Sunday, less than five hours after the shooting, and he was picked up later that day at home in Canton.
A 2009 article by the Daily Republic newspaper reported that the accused shooter’s father – Delrico Carmona Sr. – was gunned down in a park in Fairfield, California, that September.
The Saturday shooting of four victims in Goodyear Heights came just more than a month after at least 29 people were shot, including one fatally, during a birthday party in East Akron. No arrests have been made and no suspects have been identified in that incident, but there is nothing to indicate the two shootings are related.
