Thursday, July 27, 2006
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 14-year-old boy with a rifle stolen in a burglary is accused of shooting at a house on Sherwood Avenue and then slightly wounding a man in the elbow nearby on Parkview Avenue on Tuesday evening.
After the shooting on Sherwood, police spotted Melvin D. Jones when he walked into a vacant house on Parkview and fired a shot into a wall, reports show.
A stray bullet struck a man walking nearby, police added.
The West Princeton Avenue boy dropped the rifle and ran when he saw police and was caught after a short foot pursuit. Ammunition was found in his pants pocket, police said.
Jones, who already was wanted by juvenile court in an assault case, was taken to the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center to face charges of delinquency by way of receiving stolen property (the rifle), felonious assault, shooting into a habitation, resisting arrest and discharging a firearm within city limits.