Tuesday, September 27, 2005
WARREN -- Police are seeking information from the public as they investigate an ambush-style attack on officers.
Shots were fired from behind at an unmarked car occupied by two narcotics detectives on Fifth Street on Thursday evening. Detectives Melanie Gambill and Dave Weber were not hit by the gunfire, but shots hit the left tail light of the parked car they occupied, the area behind the car and a building across the street, police said.
At least 10 rounds were fired at 10:47 p.m. as the detectives were working a detail in the Hampshire House Apartments on the Southwest Side. The shots are believed to have come from an older, four-door, boxy white or gray car with several occupants on Fourth Street in the Tod's Crossing area.
Police recovered several casings and bullets, which will be analyzed by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation lab in Richfield.
No arrests have been made. Detective Mike Currington is heading the investigation.
Injured in shootings
In another police matter on the same side of town, one of two young men injured by gunfire Saturday afternoon was in satisfactory condition Monday in Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital.
Randall Morgan, 20, of 4th Street Southwest, who was shot in the left chest, remains hospitalized. The other victim, Dreano Golden, 19, of Hamilton Street Southwest, was treated at TMH on Saturday.
Police went to the 1400 block of Oak Street Southwest at 4:23 p.m. Saturday in response to a report of a large fight with shots fired. The victims had already been taken to the hospital before police arrived at the shooting scene.