Parking lot gunman eludes Austintown police
AUSTINTOWN — A Youngstown woman was robbed at gunpoint outside a nursing home where she works.
She was in her car in the parking lot of the business on Kirk Road just after 3 a.m. Thursday when a man with braided hair wearing a white T-shirt and white shorts approached.
She told police at first he was parked next to her, but got out of his car and opened her driver’s side door brandishing a revolver.
The victim said he demanded money and stated, “I should just go ahead and take you,” according to police reports.
After taking the victim’s cell phone, car keys and $50 in cash, he got into an older model grey car and fled the lot.
Police located the suspect pumping gas at Sheetz on Mahoning Avenue. As officers approached he got into the car and fled East on Mahoning. Officers pursued the suspect to the 800 block of Plazaview Court in Youngstown, where he was able to dump the car and escape on foot.