Man arrested in East Side shooting

November 27, 2013 at 10:45a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a man Tuesday afternoon in connection with a shooting Monday where a man had half off his ear cut off when he was grazed by a bullet.

Yaubrail Jones, 19, was arrested about 3:25 p.m. at a home in the 900 block of Shehy Street on the East Side on a warrant for felonious assault. He is expected to be arraigned in Municipal Court today.

A woman who was inside the house with Jones, Janita Dijonnice Jones, 20, who is seven months pregnant, was also arrested on a warrant for theft from Trumbull County, reports said.

Police said they also found a small amount of marijuana in the home and two firearms.

On Monday, police were called to St. Elizabeth Health Center where Quashawn Robinson, 22, said he was standing on Truesdale Avenue and Shehy Street about 3 p.m. when someone fired a shot at him and he was grazed by a bullet. He then said he ran to a home on North Truesdale Avenue and a friend there drove him to the hospital.

The bullet severed his ear in half, police said.