Two people were shot in separate Warren incidents over the weekend.

Staff report

WARREN

A 29-year-old Haymaker Avenue Northwest man is in the Trumbull County jail, charged with participating in a home invasion at a house on Adelaide Avenue Southeast early Saturday in which one man and a dog were shot and another man was pistol-whipped.

Allen L. Elkins IV, who also has an address on Seneca Street in Niles, pleaded not guilty Monday in Warren Municipal Court to felonious assault, aggravated burglary and misdemeanor cruelty to animals.

He is being held at the jail without eligibility to make bond.

Police said three males kicked in the rear door of the home in the 1500 block at 1 a.m. and shot a 29-year-old resident in the lower leg. The man was in the basement with a female, who was not injured.

The shooting victim had a gun and fired back at the shooter, apparently hitting him, police said. They found a bloody shoe in the yard, suggesting that the shooter had been hit, police said.

The victim said the suspect also shot a large dog in the head before leaving. The dog was still alive and being kept in a cage when police arrived.

Police booked Elkins into the Trumbull County jail at 7:12 p.m. Saturday. In his booking photo, he was wearing a hospital gown, but Warren police were not available to ask for specifics of what role Elkins is thought to have played in the break-in.

One of the suspects fired a gun at a victim in the kitchen area of the house but missed, police said. Another male victim was pistol-whipped, causing redness, police said.

The victim who was shot in the leg was taken to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital for treatment.

In a separate incident, a 21-year-old Warren man was found with a gunshot wound to his kneecap that police believe occurred in the bathroom at Warren Coin Laundry, 2517 Youngstown Road SE, at 6:20 p.m. Sunday.

The man told police he was walking from the laundry facility next door to a restaurant when two males started shooting at him.

He said he ran back inside the laundry building and into the bathroom, and the two males fled onto Willard Avenue.

However, police said they told the victim they could tell that a gunshot had been fired in the bathroom of the laundry facility. The victim then said the two males fired at him while he was in the bathroom.

The man was taken to St. Joseph Health Center for treatment.

On Friday night, a 22-year-old Howland man and a 19-year-old Warren man said they were robbed by a man after going to his home in the Jamestown Village Apartments at 10 p.m. to sell him a phone. The robber took cash and a cellphone, they said.

Police found boys, age 2 and 3, at the Family Dollar store on Parkman Road Northwest at 10:30 a.m. Friday.

The children were unable to tell adults where they lived, but they walked with them to their house in the 1800 block of Northfield Avenue Northwest.

Once there, police allowed the children to walk inside through the open back door, and a police officer yelled for their mother from the door.

Eventually, the officer had one of the boys wake up his mother, who said she “works the midnight shift and fell asleep.” Trumbull County Children Services was notified.

A 56-year-old woman living on Southern Boulevard told police Thursday she asked a cable-television repairman who was working next door to her apartment to fix her cable television, so he stopped by Thursday afternoon.

He made unwelcome sexual advances and later emerged from the bathroom with exposed genitals, she said. She said she chased him out of the apartment.