Austintown police investigating shooting of Poland man

AUSTINTOWN — A 25-year-old Poland man told police he was trying to get his wife an iced coffee when he was shot.

The victim told police he was eastbound on Kirk Road from South Raccoon Road at 1:45 a.m. Saturday when he heard a “pop” near Meridian Road.

At first, he told police he thought someone threw a rock from a silver Ford Taurus that had pulled beside him in the turning lane, but then realized he had been shot in the leg, he told police.

The victim saw the Taurus turn north on one of the streets west of Meridian Road before he went to Akron Children’s Hospital of Mahoning Valley in Boardman. He was later transported to St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.

Police noted a bullet hole in the driver’s door in the victim’s Dodge pickup truck.