Teenager's shooting is part of ongoing dispute, police say
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police are investigating the shooting of a juvenile on the city's South Side that was the result of what they said is an ongoing dispute between teens.
Two city police units were sent to the 500 block of Roxbury Avenue for a shooting just before 11 a.m. Thursday. Upon arrival, the victim was lying on the front lawn of a home on Roxbury with a gunshot wound to the right buttock.
The wounded boy told police he was walking with his brother and saw the shooters drive by in a four-door Oldsmobile Ninety Eight.
Detective Sgt. Elrico Alli, public relations spokesman for the Youngstown Police Department, said that because of an ongoing fight with the occupants of the car, the brothers started running through various yards.
When the brothers thought it was safe, they came out on Roxbury. The occupants of the Oldsmobile then drove up and started shooting at them.
The brothers were running east on Roxbury when one was shot.
The wounded boy, whose age was not given by police, was transported to St. Elizabeth Health Center by Rural Metro Ambulance.
His injuries were not considered life-threatening, Alli said.