A 23-year-old man died Tuesday in Akron after being shot for the third time in the past five years, police and the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office reported.
JaJuan Weems was shot by an unknown person about 7 p.m. in the 600 block of Roselle Avenue in the city’s Lane-Wooster neighborhood, according to the medical examiner’s office. Roselle Avenue, a brick road, is in a residential neighborhood between Manchester Road and East Avenue.
Akron police responded to a call about 7 p.m. referencing a person shot. Officers found Weems lying on a porch with a gunshot wound to the head.
Weems was taken to Cleveland Clinic Akron General and pronounced dead at 7:31 p.m.
On Oct. 1, 2011, Weems was shot in a bar on West Crosier Street. On Feb. 2 of this year, he was shot in the chest while he was in a vehicle on South Street.
Weems was on the Akron Police Department’s Ceasefire list, which names criminals with multiple violent offenses. Police department spokesman Daniel Zampelli said police and social service organizations work with people on the list to help them turn their lives around.
Weems has a history of criminal activity starting in 2010, when he was convicted of illegal possession of a firearm, criminal gang activity and evidence tampering. In 2013, he was charged with felonious assault.
Earlier this year, Weems was wanted on charges of gross sexual imposition and sexual battery for an incident in February 2015 in which he was accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman who was sleeping. The disposition of those charges is unknown.
An autopsy was to be done Wednesday.