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Violent acts keep Youngstown police busy
By JOHN W. GOODWIN JR.
YOUNGSTOWN
Police are investigating several acts of violence in the city involving guns and knives.
A 33-year-old city man was listed in critical condition as of late Friday after being shot multiple times while sitting in a car on Wilson Avenue.
According to police, the man and a female friend had just left a bar in the 1800 block of Wilson on the city’s East Side at 1:20 a.m. and were talking in the car when she noticed several men standing to the side and back of the vehicle.
The woman told police she heard a series of gunshots and then realized her friend had been hit.
Police said the man had been shot three times in the back, once in the forearm and twice in the thigh. There also was a graze wound to his right shoulder.
Several hours earlier, in a separate incident, a 22-year-old city man was shot in the leg Thursday evening while driving on the South Side. The man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center with injuries not deemed to be life-threatening.
The man told police he was driving along Hilton Avenue at the intersection of Southern Boulevard at 8 p.m. when the driver of a 1990s model Cadillac with a rag top coming in the opposite direction pulled out a gun and opened fire on the SUV he was driving.
Police found five shell casings at the Hilton and Southern Boulevard intersection and a bullet lodged in the driver’s side of the victim’s SUV.
Police also are trying to determine how a 64-year-old South Side man was stabbed during a dispute Thursday evening.
The man told police he was at a home on West Ferndale just before 10 p.m. when he decided to go to the store with a friend. The man said he paid the friend $10 for taking him to the store and they returned to the Ferndale home.
The man told police his friend demanded more money and he refused. The female friend, he said, then went to the kitchen area, grabbed a knife then slashed the man on the arm.
The man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he received eight stitches.
A mentally challenged man also was beaten about the head and face Thursday afternoon after admitting to the theft of a police scanner.
The 27-year-old North Side man told police a man came to his home at 12:15 p.m. to inquire about the stolen scanner. The victim admitted stealing the scanner, and the man began beating him in the face and head.
The man was taken to St. Elizabeth and given six stitches. No arrests have been made in any of the incidents.