18-year-old critically injured in South Side drive-by shooting

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The victim of a drive-by shooting Friday night on the South Side has been identified as Amos Dothard Jr., 18, of Plazaview Court in Youngstown.

Dothard was walking in the 800 block of East Philadelphia Avenue around 8:30 p.m. when the shooting happened, police said.

Police found a large crowd around Dothard, who was lying in the grass with a gunshot wound to the head, a police report said.

He was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital in critical condition. No update on his condition was available Saturday.

A captain on duty Saturday afternoon said there are no suspects in the case yet.