Youngstown police continue investigating 3 recent shootings

YOUNGSTOWN

Police have a “strong person of interest” in the Friday afternoon shootout among two factions of people that killed a 17-year-old Youngstown boy.

Investigators are continuing to interview witnesses in the 2 p.m. shooting at the corner of Evergreen Avenue and Summer Street.

Police believe the 2 p.m. shooting was a follow-up to an argument a couple days earlier involving the same individuals, Capt. Rod Foley said.

Police are also continuing to investigate the 2:30 p.m. Friday shooting on the South Side, possibly at the corner of Pasadena Avenue and Gibson Street, which resulted in multiple gunshot wounds to a second man.

That shooting took place about two miles west of the first South Side shooting.

The victim, Demetrius A. Lockett, 25, of East Florida Avenue, was not cooperative Friday night when police tried to talk to him at St. Elizabeth Health Center. only that a man about 25 years old shot him after asking for a cigarette.

Meanwhile, Lawrence A. Davis, 57, of Lenox Avenue on the South Side suffered a serious accidental gunshot wound to the stomach at 7:57 p.m. Friday while moving items from his home.

Davis was loading boxes from the house onto a trailer when he dropped a box onto the trailer and a .22-caliber rifle inside the box went off.

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