3 injured, 2 arrested in series of S. Side shootings
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Three people were wounded in two separate shootings on the South Side on Wednesday night and early Thursday, and two others are in custody from a shooting earlier this month.
About 3:20 a.m. Thursday, two men, age 21 and 43, were wounded while on a front porch in the 700 block of East Florida Avenue, said Chief of Detectives Capt. Brad Blackburn.
Both men suffered facial wounds and were being treated Thursday at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
Blackburn said the men told police they did not see who shot them, and two other people inside the house were uninjured. Officers who responded to the shooting collected several shell casings near the home, Blackburn said
About 11 p.m. Wednesday, a 16-year-old was shot in the neck on Southern Boulevard between East Lucius and East Auburndale avenues, reports said.
Officers were called to a home in the 100 block of East Auburndale, where they found the teen. Reports said it looked as if he had suffered a wound to the left side of his neck from a small-caliber handgun.
Police said the teen was in guarded condition Thursday at St. Elizabeth.
Taken into custody this week for an Aug. 4 shooting at a 3200 Market St. gas station that wounded a man was DeAngelo Young, 21, of Russell Avenue, and Jermaine Bunn, 19, of Stone Mountain, Ga.
Russell was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals Monday in Columbus. Bunn was arrested Wednesday.
Last week, a Mahoning County grand jury indicted Bunn, Young and two others – Jillian Russell, 32, of Ellenwood Avenue, and Jaquon Rozier, 19, of Webster Avenue – for their role in the shooting.
Bunn faces a charge of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle. Young faces charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, receiving stolen property and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Reports said police were called to the gas station about 2:10 a.m. Aug. 4. 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.
As police were investigating that crime at the gas station, witnesses told them a man was being held in a basement on East Warren Avenue.
Police went to check the house and found a man tied up in the basement.
They said Young tied the man up and took his car, which was used in the shooting at the gas station.