Shooting follows Youngstown home invasion

Shooting follows Youngstown home invasion

YOUNGSTOWN

An early Wednesday morning home invasion and shooting has left a 27-year-old man hospitalized in critical condition.

Police were called to a home at 1171 Sciota Ave. at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. Officers entered the house through an open garage and side door to find Terrence Wigfall of that address bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest and asking for help.

Lt. Mike Lambert said Wigfall was in critical condition in St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Police spoke with Wigfall’s 52-year-old mother, who said she and an 82-year-old woman were alone and sleep in the home when they were awakened by two men standing over them holding flashlights. Both men were wearing ski masks to cover their faces.

One man, she said, held them hostage while the second man was downstairs apparently searching the home.

The mother said her son came home in the middle of the attempted robbery. The man holding the two women hostage could see her son arriving at the house, she said.

The mother said a struggle could be heard between her son and the man who had been downstairs, causing the second man to run downstairs and join the fight. She said four or five gunshots rang out shortly after the second man ran downstairs, then there was silence.