Just before dawn on Sunday, August 3, 2025, Black male, Choice D. Washington, age 34, a male from Warren, Ohio, was shot on the 300 block of Scott Street. A police report noted a gunshot wound to the forehead, and Choice D. Washington, age 34, male, was rushed to the hospital. He died days later on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
In the days after his death, local officials folded the case into a wider account of a violent weekend in Warren.
While another fatal shooting that morning unfolded at the Convenient Food Mart at Elm Road and Larchmont Avenue, authorities confirmed that Choice D. Washington, age 34, male, was the second person to die in the weekend's string of incidents, his wounds traced to the predawn gunfire on Scott Street.
Investigators identified a suspect, and on August 14, 2025, a Trumbull County grand jury indicted 46-year-old David Hollie of Warren. The indictment charged him with murder with firearm and repeat violent-offender specifications, having weapons under disability with a firearm specification, tampering with evidence, failure to comply with the signal or order of a police officer, and receiving stolen property. At the time of that report, jail records did not show Hollie as booked and court records did not list an arraignment date. Later updates indicated the case remained on track for an October 2025 trial.
Community remembrances and obituaries recorded that Choice D. Washington, age 34, male, died August 6, 2025, after the August 3 shooting, and they documented the arc of his life: born November 6, 1990, and remembered by family and friends in Warren. The tributes stood alongside the primary accounts of the shooting, fixing the timeline of the injury and death that defined the case against the accused.
