Police trying to determine facts in leg shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are trying to determine how, why and where a 27-year-old Struthers man was shot in the leg this week.

According to police reports, the Creed Street man arrived at St. Elizabeth Health Center late Tuesday night with a gunshot wound to his leg just above the knee. The man told police he was walking along Oak Street when he heard four to five gunshots and realized he had been shot.

The man told police he limped to a nearby familiar house and was taken to the hospital.

Police noted that a juvenile who rode to the hospital with the victim told a different story. The juvenile told police he and the victim were in an SUV on Jackson Street when a vehicle pulled beside them and shots rang out.

The juvenile told police he and the victim abandoned the SUV and found a ride to the hospital.