The Akron Police Department is investigating after a 29-year-old man was shot and killed late Sunday evening.
According to the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office, it happened just after 10 p.m. in the 1000 block of Elwell Court.
When police and EMS arrived at the scene, they found the man down on the home's front porch. He had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene, the medical examiner's office said.
The man has been identified as Lenard Owens, of Akron, according to the medical examiner's office. He died from a gunshot wound to the neck.
Owen's death marked the first homicide in Akron in 2026.
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