Man brought to ER with gunshot wound

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are trying to determine how and why a man arrived in the emergency room with a gunshot wound to his head Tuesday afternoon.

A woman brought Ramon Herring, 23, no address available, to St. Elizabeth Health Center about 1:15 p.m. bleeding heavily from the head and in need of medical attention. Emergency personnel were able to treat the wound, and the man was listed in stable condition late Tuesday.

Capt. Mark Milstead said the woman initially told police the man was shot somewhere on the South Side. Milstead said he cannot say for certain if the gunshot wound was self-inflicted or fired by someone else.

“We are still in the process of interviewing the witness now, so until we do that and get it all ironed out, we really can’t say what happened,” he said.

A police report said the woman told hospital personnel she was at Market Street and Willis Avenue when she saw Herring, whom she recognized because he dates her daughter.

She said she pulled over to talk to him, and someone shot him. The woman said she put Herring into her car and drove him to the hospital.

The woman told hospital personnel that she had a small child in the car and that she had to go and sped off.

The car the woman was driving is registered to a Boardman man.