Ohio State recruit Turner shot in ankle, hip

YOUNGSTOWN

Unidentified assailants opened fire on former Ursuline High School football player Jamel Turner and two others, according to a police report.

Turner, 18, of Orion Avenue, told police he was riding southbound in a vehicle just after 11 p.m. Friday on Interstate 680 near the Williamson exit when a dark car with tinted windows pulled alongside their vehicle and began shooting.

Turner, who has a scholarship to Ohio State, suffered a gunshot wound to the lower left ankle and another to the right hip, and neither was a life-threatening injury, according to a police report.

The driver of the vehicle, a 32-year-old Ferndale Avenue man, suffered a gunshot wound to the hand.

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