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Robbery attempt leads to gunfire
YOUNGSTOWN
An apparent attempted robbery led to an exchange of gunfire on the city’s South Side, leaving one woman hospitalized with a wound to her arm.
According to police, a 25-year-old Mabel Avenue woman and her 22-year-old boyfriend had just put their seven kids to bed about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and were unloading groceries from a car with the woman’s 47-year-old mother when chaos hit the household.
The 25-year-old woman told police she watched her mother walk out of the house to retrieve more groceries from the car, then heard her mother scream and a series of loud banging noises coming from the direction of the home’s door.
The 25-year-old ran to an upstairs bedroom where her boyfriend had gone. She pulled out a .40-caliber handgun stored in the room just in time to see a masked man wearing all black entering the bedroom.
Reports say the woman fired a series of shots at the masked intruder, causing the man to turn and run out of the house.
The woman told police she looked outside and saw another man dressed in black apparently waiting for the masked man inside. She also fired a series of shots at that man.
According to reports, the woman and her boyfriend jumped from a second-story window in the house and ran from the house after the shots were fired. The intruder and the man standing outside also ran off in a different direction.
Police arrived at the home to find the 47-year-old mother unresponsive and bleeding in the doorway with a wound to her arm. She was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where she was listed in stable but guarded condition.
Police were unable to find the two men suspected of terrorizing the family.