Police seek gunman who wounded a South Side man in his home

YOUNGSTOWN — Police continue their search for the gunman who entered a South Side home and fired several shots at one of the occupants, hitting a man once in the chest.

Officers were sent to a home in the 100 block of West Evergreen Avenue just after 3 a.m. today and found a disoriented 20-year-old man sitting on a bed and bleeding from the chest. The man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he was listed in stable condition.

The man’s mother told police she was standing in the door of her home when an unidentified man snatched open the screen door, came into the house and fired four or five shots at her son. The woman said she began to scream and the intruder ran off.

Police also spoke to the man’s girlfriend, who was on the phone with him when the shooting took place, at the hospital. She told them she heard several shots, then screams in the home.

Officers took possession of one handgun with eight live rounds belonging to the victim and a spent shell casing from the home.