Thursday, December 31, 2015
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
An 8-month-old baby placed in the custody of the Mahoning County Childrens Services Board after her mother was arrested early Christmas morning for driving a car used in a shooting, was turned over to the baby’s grandparents.
Two adults who were in that car pulled over by police about 1 a.m. Friday were arraigned Wednesday in municipal court.
Magistrate Anthony Sertick set bond at $70,000 for Andrew Stigall, 19, of East Florida Avenue, who is charged with three counts of felonious assault and one count of carrying a concealed weapon.
Bond also was set at $35,000 for Jalisha Wylie, 18, of Crumlin Avenue in Girard, who was arraigned on three counts of complicity to commit felonious assault and a misdemeanor count of child endangering. A 13-year-old boy also was in the car when it was pulled over by police, and his case is being handled by Mahoning County Juvenile Court.
Police pulled the car Wylie was driving over at East Avondale and Gibson avenues after a group of people in another car claimed that two people in that car were shooting at them.
Assistant City Prosecutor Jeffrey Moliterno said there is cellphone video showing the shooting, and Stigall was firing out of the car’s sunroof while the other male was firing from a window. Inside the car police found a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol and a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic pistol that had a 28-round clip.
Moliterno said Wylie had been feuding with the victims, who also are from Girard, and one of the victims had her 18-month-old child in her car. No one was injured in the shooting.
At the scene, police took Wylie’s baby and turned her over to a CSB worker. Holly Hanni, Wylie’s attorney, said Wednesday that the baby was turned over to Wylie’s parents by CSB.
Hanni also asked for a lighter bond for her client, saying that her client is a student at ITT who will be returning to school after the first of the year, lives with her parents and has no criminal record. Moliterno agreed with a $35,000 bond, saying that Wylie was the driver of the car but never fired a weapon.
Sertick said that reading from the reports and hearing the attorneys, the case sounded a bit surreal.
“What you describe sounds like something straight out of a Hollywood movie,” Sertick said.