CRIME Gunplay erupts at gas station

One man was hit in the leg at the gas station, where at least 30 shots were fired.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Levar Johnson griped about being arrested on a marijuana trafficking charge at the scene of a gas station shooting and riot.
Johnson, 27, of Ferndale Avenue, Warren, had five packaged-for-sale bags of suspected marijuana in his coat when arrested at 3 a.m. Sunday at the BP gas station, 3827 Market St., police said. He was held in the Mahoning County jail overnight pending arraignment today in municipal court.
Police were sent to the gas station around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, told by the dispatcher that a report of a riot with gunfire had been called in by the store clerk. Boardman police also responded.
Officers first on the scene found a black coat with marijuana in a pocket near the entrance of the station. Johnson later approached them and claimed the coat.
"If you found anything in that coat, it ain't mine," Johnson told Patrolman Assad Chaibi when placed under arrest. On the way to jail, Johnson accused Chaibi of having a "petty job making little money" and that he, Johnson, has a lot of money and would buy "any judge in Youngstown," reports show.
Evidence
Police kept the coat as evidence, along with the marijuana and $210 seized from Johnson.
The clerk at the gas station told police that she had heard at least 30 gunshots. She said there had been people everywhere and she didn't know who fired.
Five bullet holes were found in the north side of the business.
Nearly 20 casings -- including .45-caliber and 9mm -- were collected. Police said the casings were spread throughout the north half of the parking lot, from the cashier's window to the car wash.
During the hail of bullets, Ellis Moody, 21, of West Judson Avenue was hit in the left thigh. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center.
His friend, a 20-year-old East Judson Avenue man, told police a large fight broke out in the parking lot and several people in the crowd began to yell "gun" and that "D-Lo" was the shooter. The friend said, "Warren and Youngstown people were getting rowdy."
Moody's friend said they began to run and then they noticed a dark SUV with a man known as "D-Lo" hanging out its window firing a gun.
Johnson had been in a 1999 blue Dodge Durango with a woman and three men, all from Warren, when police arrived. The vehicle had a bullet hole in the windshield.
A police supervisor on the scene ordered that one of the Durango occupants, a 20-year-old Burton Street man whose nicknames are "D-Lo" and "Murder 1," be given a gunshot residue test. Police, believing the Durango was involved in the shooting, had it towed and held for detectives.
The occupants of the Durango, including D-Lo, were then released.
At the hospital, Moody said he had been talking to his girlfriend when the fight broke out and his back was to the shooter so he didn't see who fired. Police, though, said the wound appeared to have a frontal entry, meaning he was facing his attacker.