Youngstown police make gun arrests

Staff report

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City police made two gun arrests in separate parts of the South Side on Tuesday.

Daryl Hall, 27, of Youngstown, was jailed on the charges of being a felon in possession of a gun and trafficking in cocaine after police were called to the area of Warren Avenue and Hillman Street about 2 p.m. for a report of a man running on the street in shorts firing a gun.

An officer spotted Hall, who matched the description of the suspect, and Hall fled behind a home in the 500 block of West Evergreen Avenue with his hands in his pockets. When he was found, his pockets were turned inside out, reports said. Police found a .38-caliber revolver under a car in a nearby drive.

Hall told police three men were shooting at him in a dispute over drug dealing. The gun had two spent rounds in the cylinder and three live rounds, reports said.

About 10:30 p.m. Gregory Richardson, 28, of Youngstown, was arrested in a drive in the 300 block of East Boston Avenue on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and aggravated menacing. Police were called to the area after a woman said Richardson threatened to shoot her and her daughter when they told him to stop asking the daughter out at a South Avenue bar.

Richardson was found in the driveway talking to someone in a car, and nearby was an unloaded .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol.

A woman in the car said she had never seen Richardson before, and he walked up to her and started talking to her as she pulled in the drive.

She told police that when officers spotted him, he took the gun out of his pockets and threw it away.