Woman shot while helping friend

EAST LIVERPOOL

Salem Police Chief Robert Floor said Thursday that the department’s only contact ever with Andrea B. Foster, 22, of Fifth Street, was to let her back into her vehicle after she locked herself out.

Foster was fatally shot in East Liverpool at 2:38 a.m. Wednesday when she tried to help a friend.

She was at 1126 Avondale St. when Steven J. Youngblood, 25, of Liberty, used a pistol to shoot her and Rachael Wilcox, also 22, before walking a block and fatally shooting himself.

Terry Faulkner, the acting East Liverpool police chief, said Youngblood was Wilcox’s estranged boyfriend

East Liverpool police said they believe Wilcox was in critical condition in an unidentified hospital in Pittsburgh.

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