Police looking into shooting that injured 2-year-old girl



Four people in the house told several versions of what happened.
YOUNGSTOWN -- City police are investigating a shooting that left a 2-year-old city girl wounded.
According to police reports, officers were called to 1408 Maplewood Ave. at 4:58 p.m. Thursday, and found the 2-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to the upper arm. The child was in her mother's arms crying.
Reports did not say if the child resides at the Maplewood address.
She was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center.
According to reports, a 17-year-old minor and three adults were in the house when the shooting took place. Reports said officers received three versions of what transpired from the four individuals.
The minor boy and an 18-year-old male told officers they were upstairs when they heard a loud noise and came downstairs to find two men dressed in black with ski masks, demanding money. The intruders shot the child and ran when told there was no money, the two said.
But a 19-year-old woman in the house told police only one man came into the home and demanded money. She said the man fired a shot and fled when told there was no money, reports say.
Officers later spoke to the child's mother -- a sibling of the other three witnesses -- at the hospital. The mother said she was upstairs when the shot was fired and was unsure who was in the room with the child, reports show.
The mother later told officers she saw a man running from the house after the shot was fired. Reports showed she later said there were two men running from the home.