Baseball bat attack injures Youngstown baby

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are investigating a baseball bat attack on the city’s South Side that resulted in a minor injury to a 1-year-old baby boy.

According to police, the baby was in a car driven by his 27-year-old mother at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the area of Hillman Street and Philadelphia Avenue when a purple Honda containing two women pulled up alongside the car.

Police said the women got out of the car with baseball bats and smashed the back window and back door window of the car carrying the baby.

Fragments of glass struck the child, causing injury to his neck, chest and head. He was treated at Forum Health Northside Medical Center, police said.

The mother told police the assault is over her pressing charges on the suspects for an earlier incident. Names were given to police but no arrests have been made.