Man shot in driveway

Man shot in driveway
YOUNGSTOWN -- Aaron J. Gump, 26, of Belden Avenue told police he was shot as he sat in his driveway around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Gump said the shots came from a blue van that drove by. A witness told police he saw a man firing a shotgun out the side door of the van. Gump's condition at St. Elizabeth Health Center wasn't available.
Accused in enticement
YOUNGSTOWN -- Richard F. Flickinger, 40, was held in Mahoning County Jail over the weekend after being arrested on charges of criminal child enticement, falsification and obstructing official business. He is accused of attempting to take a group of children away from their home on Benita Avenue on Friday afternoon. The children, age 5, 7 and 4, had been playing in the rear yard. The children told their mother that Flickinger said his mother was dead and in the sky and that he needed them to come to his house to play. Based on a description, police found Flickinger on Logan Avenue.
Several identities
YOUNGSTOWN -- Kara D. Sims, 21, of Brentwood Avenue was arrested at 7:15 p.m. Sunday outside a house on Marmion Avenue, where police had responded to a report about a prowler. Police said Sims identified herself first as Lakiesha Felder, then as Kelly McGuire.
After determining Sims' identity, police discovered that a warrant had been issued for her in Youngstown in a driving-under-suspension case and another warrant had been issued in Boardman in a bank-theft case.
After taking Sims to the county jail, police found a driver's license under the rear seat of the cruiser belonging to Shahara Mason. Sims admitted that she carries the license to identify herself because of the warrants, reports show. At the jail, a nurse determined that Sims had high blood pressure. Sims was then taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center for treatment.
Man in wheelchair is hit
HUBBARD -- Police were investigating an accident in which a vehicle hit a man in a wheelchair early today. City officers and investigators from the Ohio State Highway Patrol responded to the scene on West Liberty Avenue, just in front of the Hubbard Public Library, shortly before 9 a.m.
Dispatchers were unsure if the man had been in the crosswalk and did not immediately have his name or other details available.
Questions in shootings
YOUNGSTOWN -- Marco Dukes, 23, of Wick Street, Warren, was given a gunshot residue test at St. Elizabeth Health Center late Friday, where he'd been taken for treatment of multiple gunshot wounds. Warren police had called the hospital, advising that Dukes was a suspect in a triple shooting. At the hospital, Dukes told Youngstown police that he was shot somewhere on the South Side by unidentified suspects. H
e said a woman dropped him off near the Westlake projects, where he wandered into the road and was picked up by a passing motorist, who took him to the hospital. Police questioned the motorist, Lionel Hughley, 25, of Milton Street, Warren, and seized a loaded handgun from his car, as well as a black coat with three bullet holes.
The car was towed and held for Warren police.
Arrested after fight
BOARDMAN - Township police, called to a fight at the Southern Park Mall, arrested a Youngstown man wanted by city police on a charge of aggravated menacing.
Anthony Anderson, 18, of Brooklyn Avenue, Youngstown, was arrested Friday night on four aggravated-menacing warrants issued Tuesday by Youngstown Municipal Court.
Someone reported a fight about 6:30 p.m. Friday at the mall's food court, police said. Some of the participants had fled by they time police arrived, but they found Anderson at the scene. Police transported Anderson to Mahoning County Jail to await a court appearance.