Canton man shot earlier this month dies in Akron hospital

CANTON – A man police say was shot April 16 by a teenage boy in the 3100 block of Gilbert Circle NE has died.

Dajuan T. Wheat, 26, of Canton, was pronounced dead at 10:15 p.m. Saturday at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital, said Gary Guenther, investigator for the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office.

Police had arrested Anthony Steven Hinton, 17, of Canton, the day after Wheat was shot.

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Hinton was booked into the Multi-County Juvenile Attention Center on Sunday on juvenile charges of attempted murder and felonious assault, according to a news release Monday from the Canton Police Department.

Lt. Dennis Garren, police spokesman, confirmed Monday that police were seeking to amend the charges in the wake of Wheat's death, the seventh homicide in the city this year.

Police had been called at 4:07 a.m. April 16 to the Gilbert Circle area, arriving to find Wheat in the grass between apartment buildings. He had a gunshot wound to his side, an injury police at the time said was life-threatening.

Fire department medics took Wheat to Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital, and he was transferred on to the Akron hospital.

Police released no motive for the shooting.

The shooting was the seventh teen-involved shooting so far this year. Wheat's death and the arrest of Hinton brings to 10 the number of teens involved so far this year in a total of seven separate, violent, gun-related crimes.

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