Youngstown man charged with firing handgun at car outside Liberty restaurant

Staff report

GIRARD

C’Quan Cross, 19, of 617 Fairmount Ave., Youngstown, is in the Trumbull County Jail, charged with felonious assault. He is accused of firing a handgun at another man in the Denny’s Restaurant parking lot on Belmont Avenue in Liberty last weekend.

Cross came to the Liberty Police Department on Friday morning to talk to a detective about the incident and was charged after being interviewed by Capt. Toby Meloro.

Judge Jeffrey Adler of Girard Municipal Court set bond at $100,000 for Cross and ordered house arrest for him if he is able to make bond. He was not asked to enter a plea.

Police were called to the restaurant at 11:36 p.m. last Saturday for gunshots fired in the restaurant parking lot, but both the men involved left the scene in separate vehicles and were not identified.

Witnesses said the two men were fighting in the restaurant’s lobby, and other patrons broke it up.

They both left the restaurant, with one man following the other. The second man got a handgun out of the back of a car and fired it two times into the driver’s door of the other man’s car as he drove from the parking lot, police said.

The shooter also fired a shot that hit an unoccupied car in the parking lot. The shooter got into his car, and it went a different direction.

Police later learned the identity of the victim, a Youngstown man also 19 years old, and learned that he had not been injured.

If convicted, Cross could get eight years in prison. He returns to court for his next hearing at 9 a.m. Wednesday.