Home invasion may be linked to shooting

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — City and Warren Township police are attempting to link a township home invasion in which shots were fired with a man found wounded in the city Thursday morning.

The 18-year-old Youngstown man who was wounded by gunfire is in the intensive care unit of Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital. Police don’t know if he was one of the two invaders.

Township Police Chief Tom Rush said two masked men armed with handguns went into a mobile home at the Betmar Mobile Home Park off Highland Avenue about 12:30 a.m. They pistol-whipped the owner, who got a gun and opened fire. The two men fled.

Rush said the owner was released after treatment at St. Joseph Health Center. His girlfriend and her two children were not injured.

About half an hour later, city police responded to a call from TMH that it had received a man who had been shot and was being treated. He remains in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

A woman who drove the two men to the hospital — one being wounded — told police she was at Tod Avenue and Fifth Street. One man she recognized and only knew by his first name, Anthony, was dragging the wounded man, whom she knew. Anthony left the hospital after helping to get him inside.

There is no motive for the invasion, and it’s not known if anything was taken, the chief added.