Car fires, gunshots probed

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police believe there could be a connection between two car fires and gunshots fired between 7 a.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday.

At 1:40 a.m. Friday, police were called to Myrtle Avenue and were told by four females that men in two cars fired gunshots at them on Glenwood Avenue near Ridge Avenue on the city’s South Side and followed them, continuing to shoot. Damage from one apparent gunshot was noticed in the vehicle, but no injuries were reported.

The women recognized two of the men, one of whom has a child with one of the women, the women said.

Police noted on the police report that a woman’s car was set on fire at the Glenwood Avenue address of one of the suspects at 7 a.m. Thursday, and the car of a brother of one of the women was set on fire about 2 a.m. Friday on Mabel Street.