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Weekend shootings probed by police
YOUNGSTOWN
Police are investigating the shooting of one man on the South Side as well as three other city shootings in which no one actually was hit.
Police were sent to Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle, Pa., on Friday to speak with a 43-year-old New Castle man who said he had been shot at a basketball court in Youngs-town earlier that day.
The man told police he was with his girlfriend visiting relatives on the South Side when he noticed a group of males playing basketball at a park. The man said he went to the park at 4 p.m. to watch the game, then heard three shots ring out and ran as other people in the park ran as well. He said he did not know he had been shot until he returned home to Pennsylvania.
The man said he is not familiar with Youngstown and could not give police an exact location of the shooting. He had been shot in the thigh.
A 52-year-old East Side man told police shots were fired at his car in an apparent act of road rage on Wilson Avenue on Sunday evening.
The man told police he was traveling on Wilson Avenue near Jackson Street just before 9 p.m. when a man in a Honda minivan started screaming for him to move his vehicle. The man said the armed stranger fired one shot into the air and a second shot into the trunk of his car.
A 22-year-old North Side woman told police she was nearly abducted by a disgruntled former boyfriend Saturday then shot at several times by the man as she escaped.
The woman said she had been sitting on the porch of a friend on Sherwood Avenue just before 10 p.m. when the ex-boyfriend got out of a car, ran up on the porch and began arguing with her. The man forced her to his car and threatened to kill her, she said.
The woman told police she kicked the man and ran from the car, but he got out of the car and began firing shots at her as she ran up the street. The woman was not hit by the gunfire but suffered bruises and scrapes from the altercation with the man.
A 29-year-old Niles man told police he, too, was almost the victim of a shooting Saturday.
The man said he was picked up by several females about 9:30 p.m. with plans to go to a party, but one of the women began to vomit, and the driver pulled to the side of the road. The man said he was outside the car attempting to offer the woman help when he noticed she appeared to be faking and a truck pulled alongside him with several males inside.
The man told police he recognized two people in the truck and immediately began running.
He said several shots were fired in his direction as he ran away.