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Police investigate S. Side shooting that left 1 injured
A witness said it sounded as if someone was firing back at the initial shooter.
YOUNGSTOWN — Police are sorting through details of a shooting on the South Side that has left one family shaken and one man wounded.
Police received several calls about shooting in the area of East Philadelphia at 10:20 p.m. Sunday. Officers first went to the residence of a 30-year-old woman, at home with her small children, who said she was sitting in the living room and heard numerous gunshots outside.
The woman told police a bullet came through a living-room wall about four feet from where her children were sitting, sending plaster all over the kids.
While officers were speaking to the woman, dispatch learned of a 25-year-old man who just arrived at St. Elizabeth Health Center with a gunshot wound to the shoulder. The man said he was shot at a Market Street convenience store a short distance from the East Philadelphia home.
A witness to the shooting told police she saw a man wearing a hooded sweat shirt walking up and down East Philadelphia.
The witness said the man began firing at the Market Street convenience store. The witness ran into a nearby house, and she said it sounded as if someone was firing back at the initial shooter.
Police found seven shell casings from two guns in the area of the store and East Philadelphia.
The 25-year-old Boardman man who had been shot, an employee of the store, told police he had locked the store for the night and then went back to retrieve a forgotten item.
He said the gunman started shooting at him as he exited the store for the second time, hitting him in the right arm.
The store employee denied shooting back at the man. He could not provide police with a description of the man who shot him.
No arrest has been made in the shooting.
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