Two arrested in shooting at house

Staff report

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City police arrested two men and were looking for a third after gunmen fired semi-automatic weapons into an East Dewey Avenue house containing four adults and three children Saturday afternoon.

No one was injured.

A woman who lives at the house with her boyfriend and three children, age 1, 5 and 8, told police that about noon her boyfriend received a threatening text message.

When she looked out of the window, she saw a car pull into her driveway with three people inside.

Two men pulled out assault rifles and began to shoot the house. She grabbed the children and tried to find cover.

Police who responded saw two men who fit the description of those involved walking on Wilbur Street. When one of the men, later identified as Dwayne Edward Boone, 22, of Lemans Drive, Boardman, saw the cruiser, he laid an assault rifle on the ground, a police report said.

Police arrested Boone and found a plastic bag containing suspected crack cocaine in his pants.

He was charged with seven counts of felonious assault and one count each of cocaine possession and illegal-weapons possession. Boone also had warrants for his arrest from Columbus, charging him with three counts of illegal-weapons possession.

When a second suspect saw police, he dropped a black pullover hoodie with a cellphone and fled through the backyards on Wilbur. Officers chased him, but he hadn’t been found Saturday evening.

A third man, Boston Walker, 21, of Southern Boulevard, was charged with seven counts of complicity to felonious assault. He was accused of driving the car and told the female victim that he brought the two men to her home to talk and that he didn’t know they had guns, a police report said. Walker was arrested at the East Dewey Avenue house.