Woman shot on Youngstown's South Side


YOUNGSTOWN — A city woman is hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries after a shooting on the city’s South Side.

The 30-year-old Florist Street woman was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center just after 11 p.m. Wednesday with a gunshot wound below the left armpit.

She and witnesses told police she was at a stop light at the intersection of Oakhill Avenue and Falls Avenue facing south when a dark colored sport utility vehicle pulled alongside her car. A front passenger in the SUV began firing into the victim’s car, hitting her on the left side.

The woman and the two witnesses could not provide a description of the shooter or the driver.