Niles man wounded after party in the city
NILES — Mitchell Hall, 22, of Niles, is in serious condition at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to the stomach he received after a party on Pratt Street turned violent.
Hall, whose address was not available this morning, was among several people who attended a party at an apartment at 424 Pratt Street that began Monday night, police said.
At around 1 a.m. today, Hall and a 20-year-old man who lives at 300 Pratt Street left the party.
About 30 minutes later, people still at the party noticed that one man’s cell phone and keys were missing, so one of the party-goers called the 20-year-old Pratt Street man and asked him about the items, police said.
The 20-year-old said he did have the items and to come to his apartment to get them.
When two of the party-goers went the apartment at about 2 a.m., the 20-year-old man came out holding a handgun and was “waving it around” and threatening the man whose keys and phone were missing, police said.
The gun went off and hit Hall in the stomach, police said. The man with the missing keys was not injured.
A friend later took Hall to the hospital, said Niles detective Dan Adkins.
Police contacted the 20-year-old man by telephone and arranged to meet him at Robbins and Vienna avenues, where he was arrested.
He is due in Niles Municipal Court today to face possible felony charges.