Residents assaulted, threatened

Staff report

WARREN

Two people were assaulted by a group of males walking on Hunter Street Northwest and Front Street Southwest about 10 p.m. Friday.

A 28-year-old woman said the group of males was walking up an alley near Hunter Street and “messing with everyone in the neighborhood, yelling at and threatening people.”

The woman said she and some of her family and friends got into a verbal altercation with the group, and one of the males came onto the woman’s property and broke out a window on her sport-utility vehicle.

Other members of the group picked up rocks and pieces of cement and threw them at the woman’s group, police said.

The woman stood “nose to nose” with one of the males, telling him to leave, and he punched her in the face and struck her arm, she said. The group left but threatened to burn down the woman’s house, she told police.

A short time later, a 31-year-old man said he was at the intersection of Parkman Road and Front Street Southwest when a group of males approached him, then he was struck in the back of the head. He went to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital for treatment of a large bump and laceration on the back of his head.

At 3:45 p.m. the next day, women 40 and 55 years old called police to Kenwood Drive Southwest to report that about 15 male and female members of a juvenile gang had just threatened them while the residents were on their own property.

The juveniles said they “own the neighborhood and the street,” the women said.

The three locations are about 11/2 miles apart.