Man arraigned for shooting up car, house

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A suspect in a shooting Wednesday that damaged a house and a car on the North Side was arraigned in municipal court Friday.

Magistrate Anthony Sertick set bond at $75,000 for Christopher Gordon, 26, of Fairgreen Avenue. He was arraigned on a charge of felonious assault, a second-degree felony.

Gordon was arrested about 1:15 p.m. Thursday in his home by members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force.

He is a suspect in the shooting in the 2200 block of Ohio Avenue about noon Wednesday. A 22-year-old woman told police she was standing outside when an SUV pulled up with two men inside, one of whom had an AK-47 assault rifle.

Several shots were fired, and the woman’s car and her house were hit multiple times by gunfire, but no one was injured.

Assistant Prosecutor Shelli Freeze told Magistrate Sertick it was the third attack on the woman since Saturday. She told police her other car was shot up Saturday and someone in a vehicle similar to the one used in Wednesday’s shooting also fired shots at her.

Freeze asked for a bond of $75,000, saying that Gordon has failed to appear in court four previous times on other charges.

Freeze said Gordon was picked out of a photo lineup by a witness.

Besides the order, Magistrate Sertick also issued a no-contact order for Gordon for the home and the woman should he manage to post and be released from jail.