Cops probe 3 shootings at homes
YOUNGSTOWN
Police are investigating three instances of houses hit by gunfire Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
According to city police reports, two 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old boy were inside a Neilson Avenue home just before 10 p.m. when they heard gunfire and ducked to the floor for cover. The boys told police they have no idea why anyone would shoot at the house, but police reports label the residence a drug house.
Police spoke by phone to the 46-year-old woman who owns the house.
Police were called to a house in the 100 block of Rhoda Avenue a few hours later, just after midnight, for reports of shots fired at the home.
A 21-year-old resident of the home told police she was walking home and noticed a car containing three black males riding slowly past her house. She said the same group of men returned to the house on foot and were walking by, looking at the house shortly after she got home.
A short time after seeing the men walk past the house, she heard gunfire and realized someone was shooting at the house.
Before police could finish sorting out the Rhoda Avenue situation, there was another call for shots fired at a home in the 2600 block of Cooper Avenue at 12:39 a.m.
A 35-year-old woman told police she was sleeping inside the home when bullets began to hit the house.
A 16-year-old boy who had been playing video games inside the house at the time of the shooting told police he saw two “kids” dressed in black hooded sweatshirts in the middle of the street pointing at the house and he “knew what was coming next.” He said he moved away from the window as the bullets began flying.
No one was injured in any of the shootings.
Police do have a listed suspect in the Cooper Avenue shooting.