Police probe 2 separate acts of violence by youths

STAFF REPORT

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are investigating two separate acts of violence by youths in the city.

According to police, a 13-year-old Summit Middle School boy was walking to his North Evanston Avenue home shortly after 3 p.m. Monday when he was attacked by a group of four teenage boys.

The group pushed the younger boy to the ground and began punching and kicking him.

The group took the younger boy’s overstuffed, gray winter coat and ran off. The boy’s mother said her children have been consistently victimized by the same group of teens for months. She refuses to allow the children to play outside because of the constant harassment and attacks.

Police are investigating.

Police also are looking for an 11-year-old and a 15-year-old who forced their way into the North Blaine Avenue home of a 37-year-old woman Monday afternoon and refused to leave.

The woman told police the youths were upset because she had recently “kicked” them out of her house.

The relationship between the woman and the boys is unclear, but they do not live at the North Blaine address.

The woman told police the boys destroyed some of the property in her home and refused to leave after being told repeatedly to do so.

She said the boys opened a front door, allowing their mother, who drove them to the house, to come in.

The woman told police the mother told her, “You don’t want to start up trouble with us” before collecting her two children and leaving the house.