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Ohio State recruit Turner shot in ankle, hip

Sunday, April 18, 2010

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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