Grandmother heard shots that hit granddaughter

YOUNGSTOWN — Rose Yeager heard the shots that hit Misty White, her 14-year-old granddaughter.

“The shooting was around midnight, we heard it from here,” Yeager said, moving in her wheelchair on Richland Avenue to point to First Street, a few blocks away on the West Side.

“They were told to sit on the porch at her other grandmother’s on First Street and wait for Kevin [Bacher] to pick them up. But they walked down the street.”

Kevin Bacher is Misty’s 19-year-old uncle. He was going to give Misty and her girlfriend a ride to Yeager’s, where they were spending Saturday night.

The shooting took place around 12:15 a.m. Sunday at the end of First Street near the parking lot of the Holy Trinity Church social hall on Laird Avenue. Misty’s row-house apartment is west of the lot at the corner of Steel and First streets.

Misty remained in critical condition Monday at St. Elizabeth Health Center. Yeager said the girl was hit three times and one bullet remains lodged in her back.

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