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Multiple assaults investigated
YOUNGSTOWN
City police are investigating multiple acts of assault that took place in separate incidents over the weekend.
Police are trying to determine exactly what happened to a 34-year-old South Side man who showed up at the door of his girlfriend’s Gertrude Place home Sunday night with multiple injuries and asking for medical help.
The man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center and listed in stable condition, but police are trying to determine how the man was injured.
The girlfriend told police she and the victim were at a Wilson Avenue bar shooting pool earlier in the evening, then came home and she remembers nothing else after that. Police found the woman’s car in the driveway of the home with the rear window broken out and blood throughout the car. There also was blood on the outside of the car and the porch of the house.
Police also are investigating the claim by a 38-year-old West Side man that he was attacked while walking down Mahoning Avenue just before 10 p.m. Friday. The man said someone called his name, then attacked him from behind.
Police noted that the Lakeview Avenue man’s eye was swollen shut, and his face was three times its normal size.
A 32-year-old Campbell man and his 23-year-old passenger, also of Campbell, told police they were involved in an accident about 3:21 a.m. Sunday while trying to dodge gunfire coming from the occupants of another car.
The two men told police they were in the area of Victor Avenue and Commonwealth when they observed a newer, gold Cadillac coming in their direction. Someone inside the Cadillac, they said, began firing shots at their car.
The two men told police they ducked to avoid the gunfire and the car they were driving either hit the Cadillac or another car that was nearby. Police could not locate a gold Cadillac with front-end damage anywhere in the area.
An 18-year-old Florence Avenue man told police he was shot in the hand while leaving a gas station on Albert Street early Sunday, but owners of the gas station told officers the incident did not happen.
The man told officers he was pumping gas when an argument started between other customers. He said he was leaving the lot when gunfire erupted, and a bullet came through the back window of his car and struck his hand.
Police did see the car the man was driving and noted a broken back window and blood near the driver’s seat but said the man had been seen walking through the area earlier in the evening.
Employees at the gas station said no fights or gunfire had taken place, and the store has video to prove nothing happened.