Wood Street shooting victim stable

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A 19-year-old city man, who was shot multiple times in the hip and legs in the rear parking lot of an apartment building at 224 W. Wood St., is in stable condition in St. Elizabeth Health Center, police said.

The man, who lives on Fairgreen Avenue, was shot with a handgun just before 1 p.m. Monday.

City and Youngstown State University police responded to the shooting scene, where police recovered multiple spent shell casings from the parking lot.

Police were interviewing multiple eyewitnesses Monday afternoon, city police Lt. Douglas Bobovnyik said.

The lieutenant said a 23-year-old Youngstown man was apprehended at the Western Reserve Transit Authority’s Federal Station shortly after the shooting and likely will face a felonious assault charge.

Algernon Franklin of Redgate Lane was identified as the suspect in a police report Monday night.

A text alert to members of the university community said the apartment building, located just off campus, is privately owned, and that neither the suspect nor the victim is a YSU student.

Neither the victim nor the suspect live at 224 W. Wood St.; and the motive for the shooting is unknown, Bobovnyik said.