Youngstown teen charged with hitting man with car

YOUNGSTOWN

An 18-year old city woman was charged with felonious assault after a man said she struck him with a vehicle early Thursday.

Brandy Johnson, no address provided, was housed in the Mahoning County jail.

A man told police that a vehicle with three women inside was in his driveway at about 4 a.m. He said they had had an altercation earlier in the week with a friend of his.

He told them his friend wasn’t there and to leave his property.

He said they yelled and swore and then left but returned a few minutes later and struck him with the car.

Johnson told police she was driving but said the man pulled her friend’s hair and spit in her face.

The man suffered a cut to his palm and a scrape on his shoulder. He was treated by ambulance personnel.