Youngstown police have suspect in shooting

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police have a 17-year-old suspect in mind in the shooting of an 18-year-old man on the city’s East Side over the weekend, but have not yet apprehended the teen suspect.

An officer working the area around the Plazaview apartments Sunday heard a series of gunshots coming from the area of 960 Plazaview Court just after 7 p.m. The officer went to the area of the shooting and saw a man dressed in black standing over another man who was laying on the ground.

The man standing took off running when he noticed the officer approaching.

The 18-year-old Ives Street man lying on the ground, reportedly, was bleeding heavily from a gunshot wound to his inner thigh. He was lying a short distance away from a loaded black and silver semiautomatic handgun.

The officer stored the handgun in a police cruiser then made tourniquet out of the shooting victim’s belt and a stick found near the scene of the shooting.

The shooting victim was loaded into an ambulance and then began complaining about his neck hurting. Paramedics checked the area around the man’s neck and learned that he had also been shot in the neck as well as the leg. He was listed in critical but stable condition at St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Police did ask the man who was responsible for the shooting to which he replied “Mike.” Officers interviewed others in the area and believe the shooter is a 17-year-old named Mike who lives in the nearby Victory housing complex.