a suspect is in custody after a shooting that left 2 people dead on Saturday night. Just after 8pm. officers responded to a shooting near 30 W. Wilbeth near Firestone Stadium. The suspect, 28 year old Brandon Casto, turned himself into a sheriff’s office in the southeast part of the state near the West Virginia border. He faces charges of aggravated murder and felonious assault. In a press release Sunday, Akron police said officers were called to the area on West Wilbeth Road after multiple 911 calls about a shooting, including from a 49 year old woman who said she fled the scene after being shot by the suspect. Officers on the scene found a vehicle that had crashed into a tree on Hemlock Street just south of Wilbeth and was partially on fire. Inside that vehicle officers found a 12 year boy, Jericho Mangual, shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A 47 year old woman, the boy’s mother, Tania Mangual, was also shot, rushed to the hospital where she died. A 2 year old boy, also her son, was inside the vehicle. He was not injured. Detectives executed a search warrant at an apartment, connected to the suspect. During their search, detectives recovered multiple firearms, firearms, firearm accessories, and a huge collection of ammunition.
Double homicide in Akron
Mar 30, 2026 | 8:05 AM
