Shooting leaves man dead

The shooting was one of five that occurred in the city over the weekend.
YOUNGSTOWN -- City police arrested a 31-year-old South Side woman on a charge of reckless homicide after she admitted shooting a neighbor, police reports show.
Dennis Best, 49, was found with a gunshot wound behind his left ear, lying on the dining room floor in his 2524 Hunter Ave. home around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. A .22-caliber handgun was found on the seat of a recliner near the body. He was transported to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Mahoning County coroner's investigator Frank DeMain said the death is under investigation, pending an autopsy today. If it is ruled a homicide, it will be the city's 10th this year.
The woman and several others were inside the residence when the shooting occurred, a witness told police. A man who lives at the residence said he was sleeping on a living room couch as the victim listened to music in the dining room. He said he heard a gunshot and went into the dining room to find the victim lying on the floor.
Five reported: The shooting was one of five reported in the city over the weekend.
An 18-year-old Midlothian Boulevard man reported that he was walking in the 400 block of Almyra Avenue on the city's South Side around 6:20 p.m. when the driver of a car fired five or six shots at him, striking him in the left forearm, police reports show. He said he had been shot at earlier in the day by the same man, whom he knows, on West Boston Avenue.
In an unrelated shooting, a 45-year-old Erie Street man told police he went to enter his sister's Miller Avenue home on the South Side around 12:30 a.m. today when a burglar wearing a ski mask tried to shoot him with a handgun, police reports show. When the gun jammed, the 45-year-old man ran. He said he then heard a gunshot and felt a breeze by his head. He said he ran through Homestead Park and was chased by burglars in a vehicle that eventually hit him. Police said the Miller Avenue home had been ransacked and an upstairs window broken out.
Also over the weekend, two city residents reported that gunshots had been fired into their homes.
A 39-year-old North Side man said someone had shot out a front window of his Roslyn Drive home around 6:20 a.m. Saturday, police reports show. He said he saw his 19-year-old nephew in his yard before and after the shooting.
A 30-year-old South Side woman reported that she was sleeping in her East Judson Avenue home around 5:20 p.m. Saturday when she heard a gunshot and saw a bullet hole in the window of the bedroom where she slept, police reports show. Police saw 12 bullet holes in the front of the home from earlier shootings.