Man wanted for kidnapping, shooting

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A man wanted on an attempted-murder warrant in the shooting of another man at a South Side gas station last week also is accused of tying up someone else, leaving him in a basement and stealing a car.

Police issued warrants last week for attempted murder, abduction, theft of a motor vehicle and being a felon in possession of a firearm for Deangelo Young Jr., 21.

Young is wanted in the shooting of a 28-year-old man in the parking lot of a 3200 Market St. gas station about 2:10 a.m. last Tuesday. Reports said police found the victim half out of his car when they arrived and that witnesses were trying to help him.

The man was critically wounded, but police said he is expected to survive. The victim and Young were arguing before the shooting, detectives said last week.

Detective Sgt. Mike Lambert said as investigators were interviewing witnesses at the gas station, they told them that Young had tied a man up and left him in basement on East Warren Avenue and also had taken that man’s car.

Police went to the address on East Warren Avenue and found the man tied up in his basement, Lambert said.

Young is on probation after pleading guilty in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to a felony count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced July 9 to five years’ probation, according to court records.

In January, police pulled Young over at Hillman and St. Louis avenues for running a stop sign and found a loaded 9 mm handgun in his car, reports said.