Additional charges to be filed in incident outside Warren club

Staff report

WARREN

Police plan to file additional charges today in Warren Municipal Court against an 18-year-old woman, accused of driving a car into a crowd Sunday at a bring-your-own-bottle club on West Market Street.

Ranyia Miller of Warren will face additional charges as a result of two people suffering serious injuries during the 4:59 a.m. incident at the Boogie Down Club, 2382 W. Market St., police said.

Miller isn’t accused of hitting a 20-year-old Warren woman and 21-year-old Fairport Harbor man on purpose, but the charges are being filed because she was purportedly intoxicated at the time, police noted.

She pleaded not guilty Monday in Warren Municipal Court to drunken driving and driving alone on a temporary permit. She was released on bond.

Police say the two injured people are in stable condition at hospitals in Youngstown and Cleveland.

A third person, Miller’s 19-year-old sister, suffered a gunshot wound to the foot about the same time as the car crash, police said.

Police believe Miller’s sister was in the Boogie Down parking lot when she was struck by the bullet and was among a group of people who had come out of the club because of a fight.

About the same time, two cars came past the Boogie Down with people inside shooting at each other, and police believe the woman was hit by stray gunfire, said Detective Nick Carney of the Warren Police Department.

It appears that the fight and the gunfire are not related, Carney said, and police still are attempting to identify the individuals who did the shooting.

The club does not have a liquor license and therefore is not required to close at the time licensed liquor establishments must close, police said.