Wednesday, August 19, 2009
YOUNGSTOWN — Police are investigating a series of separate shootings in a 12-hour period that left one woman critically wounded and a neighborhood shaken.
Latoya Stephenson, 34, of Victor Avenue was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center just after 1 a.m. today with what police call a severe gunshot wound to the lower stomach area. She was taken to surgery and listed as critical as of this afternoon.
According to police, Stephenson was shot in a recreational area on Cedar Lane in the Rockford Village housing complex on the East Side.
Alicia Robinson, 21, of Gluck Street was shot in the leg in a separate incident during a confrontation with a man she told police is her boyfriend.
According to police, Robinson went to the 29-year-old man’s Broadway home on the North Side just after midnight today to confront him about another woman. She told officers she knocked on the door but received no answer, so she broke a window to the home. The man, she said, fired several shots at her hitting her in the thigh.
Robinson was treated at Forum Health Northside Medical Center.
William Hayes, 36, of Erie Street told police he was shot in the buttocks while walking in the area of Hilton and South avenues on the South Side just before 9 p.m. Tuesday.