Cops: Victim may have shot himself on South Side

Market Street Shooting

Video

In this security camera footage of a shooting on Market Street Monday, provided by the Youngstown Police Department, a man gets out of the white car, runs towards the sidewalk then appears to be reaching for something before doubling over and running away. Police identified the man as Roderick Weaver, 22, who was wounded in the groin. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Detective Bureau at 330-742-8911.

YOUNGSTOWN — Police say a man who was wounded in a shooting on the South Side may have shot himself.

Surveillance footage from a Sami Quick Stop on Market Street near Midlothian Boulevard shows who police say is the victim, Roderick Weaver, 22, of Cameron Avenue, get out of a car that pulled into the store, run out of the parking lot onto a sidewalk, and reach for something in his waistband area, then double over and run away.

Weaver was found at a house on the corner of West Judson and Hillman avenues. He had a gunshot wound to the groin and was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

He was the only person injured in the shooting, where two groups of people from two separate vehicles exchanged gunfire about 4:15 p.m. in the parking lot of the store.

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