6-year-old, man injured in North Side shooting
City police found at least three bullet holes in the home at 946 Delaware Ave.
STAFF REPORT
YOUNGSTOWN — City police are investigating a late night shooting on the city’s North Side that resulted in a man and a child being wounded.
City police weren’t releasing details until crime lab investigators and a representative from the Mahoning County coroner’s office came to the scene.
Police received a call shortly after 10:30 p.m. that a house in the 900 block of Delaware Avenue was being shot at.
The next-door neighbor, who declined to give her name, said she heard a series of gunshots that sounded like firecrackers. And then she heard a second salvo of shots that “almost gave me a heart attack.”
Reports were sketchy, but the initial call was for shots fired at 945 Delaware, where the neighbor said she saw a child’s body put into the ambulance.
At 11:08 p.m. a second ambulance arrived and at 11:18 p.m. a gurney carrying a man was brought out of the house at 946 Delaware, which is directly across the street from 945 Delaware, and was loaded into that ambulance.
Another man, who also declined to be identified and who lives four blocks away, said he heard the shots and it sounded like they came from two different guns.
The homeowner at 945 Delaware declined to comment, and was waiting for detectives to arrive to take his statement.
Police officers found at least three bullet holes in the home at 946 Delaware.
Eight cruisers, plus two other vehicles, including the coroner’s car, plus a K-9 unit were on the scene.