Gianni Gray

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Garfield Heights man is accused of fatally shooting two men while driving on the West 117th Street exit off Interstate 90.

Gianni Gray, 35, is charged with aggravated murder. A warrant was issued Tuesday for his arrest.

Gray on Saturday is accused of shooting and killing Malachia Perez Stewart III, and Andre Williams, both 35, as they drove on the westbound interstate ramp.

Stray gunfire also struck a Lakewood woman in a different car, according to police reports. She was treated and released from MetroHealth, police reports say.

The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. Saturday at one of Cleveland's busiest off-ramps.

Stewart and Williams were in the same car when Gray pulled up next to their car and opened fire on the ramp, according to police and court records.

Gray was in the passenger seat of the car. The driver of the car has not yet been identified by police.

Both Williams and Stewart suffered several gunshot wounds to their heads and bodies, according to police.

The 23-year-old Lakewood woman drove to the Shell gas station on West 117th Street and called police. A bullet grazed her abdomen and she suffered cuts to her arm from broken glass, according to police reports.

Police collected at least 13 bullet casings from the scene of the shooting, according to a cleveland.com reporter at the scene.

Williams, the younger brother of Euclid NAACP President Cassandra McDonald, was the father of four children, ages three months to 18 years old, his sister said.

He was shot in the neck in 2010 and nearly died. He spent time in prison for his role in an armed robbery at age 17, but turned his life around, McDonald said.

McDonald said he often helped her as she battled cancer and helped their mother out with her health problems.

"He was a good guy. It was a miraculous turnaround," McDonald said. "He was concerned with me more than I was with him because I had cancer. His experiences, those bad experiences he had in life, turned him into being a better person. That's the part that I loved and I will miss. It was incredible."

McDonald said her brother knew Stewart from when they were kids and that her brother just happened to be in the wrong car at the wrong time. She said her brother was getting a ride from Stewart.

Gray has been convicted of several felonies since 2001, including a 2017 conviction for attempted possession of a shotgun and handgun. He was released from prison on Nov. 11.

He was also convicted in 2008 of possessing a weapon as a felon and drug trafficking, possessing a weapon as a felon and carrying a concealed weapon in 2002 and possessing drugs, preparing drugs for sale and failing to comply with a police order in 2001.

Gray's brother, Orlando Gray, was shot and killed in May 2015.