A 20-year-old Youngstown man has confessed to shooting and killing 19-year-old Daniel Watkins, of 764 Squirrel Hill Dr. just before midnight on July 25 in the driveway of 3721 Loveland Rd.
      YPD officer Robert DiMaiolo said police found a 2000 Pontiac Firebird in the driveway of the home and Watkins was found in the driver’s seat “slumped over the center console with numerous gunshot wounds to the torso area and barely breathing.”
      Watkins was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital where he was pronounced dead, Officer DiMaiolo said.
      On Thurs., Aug. 1, Youngstown police arrested Michael Brown, of 2354 Mt. Vernon and charged him with the death of Watkins.
      According to published reports, Brown confessed to shooting Watkins four times; and Watkins was at the Loveland home trying to trade cough syrup and cash for heroin.
      Brown faces a scheduled Aug. 9 preliminary hearing in the courtroom of Youngstown Municipal Judge Elizabeth Kolby on Fri., Aug. 9. he is currently lodged in the Mahoning County Jail on $250,000 bond.
      The home on Loveland where Watkins was shot is reported to be owned by Ron Violante, 17 Audubon Lane, Poland.
      Watkins had been arrested in April of this year and charged with the thefts of seven cell phones at the D.D. and Velma Davis Family YMCA in Boardman.
      At the time he told police he had been a heroin addict and stole the cell phones to support his habit.
      He told police he would purchase his heroin from a man on the south side of Youngstown.
      Watkins also told police in April that he had completed a drug rehabilitation program.