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Five shot, one stabbed over weekend
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police had a busy weekend as five people were shot and another was stabbed.
About 12:45 a.m. Monday, police say Deandre Fant, 27, of Youngstown, was grazed in the shoulder by a bullet as he was in a home in the 800 block of Palmer Avenue on the South Side.
A man who lives in the home told police he was awakened by gunfire and heard several shots. Reports said the man told police he covered his girlfriend, then had two children age 7 and 10 inside the house and Fant go into the basement after the gunfire ended.
Police found Fant bleeding from the hand and shoulder, reports said. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital to be treated. While there, a records check revealed Fant was wanted on several warrants, including one from municipal court and one from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office. He was taken into custody on the warrants.
Police found nine 7.62 mm shell casings outside the home and two 9 mm shell casings. No one else inside was injured.
Saturday about 10:35 p.m., Jamayle Roland, 24 and Ladonna Tubbs, 58, both of Fairmont Avenue and Lashawn Welch, 22, of Delaware Avenue, were all wounded in a shooting at a Delaware Avenue home on the North Side.
Witnesses told police Roland was in an argument with her boyfriend, and the homeowner kicked Roland out of her home, and the boyfriend left.
Reports said Roland went to a home in the 700 block of Delaware Avenue where the homeowner’s niece lived, and the homeowner and Welch went there to tell Roland to leave that home as well. Tubbs, who is the aunt of Roland, was called to come to the home to take Roland home, reports said.
As other family members also were present to help defuse the argument, witnesses heard several gunshots, reports said. Some witnesses said they saw a man wearing a red baseball hat, black sweatshirt and dark pants firing a gun. As the people in the home scattered, the gunman ran away.
Roland was hit in the groin, while Tubbs was wounded in the foot and Welch in the shin, reports said. All three were taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where Roland was listed in critical condition and the other two were in stable condition.
About 4:40 a.m. Saturday, police were called to ValleyCare Northside Medical Center, where they found Deandre Charles Kelly Johnson, 20, of Struthers, who was being treated after he was cut below his eye by a piece of flying glass while someone was shooting at him.
Reports said Johnson told police he was driving his car on Market Street on the South Side when another car was following him. The other car pulled up beside his, and someone inside that car fired several shots at him when he was near Myrtle Avenue.
Reports said Johnson also was the victim of a felonious assault in 2013, but Johnson said he has no idea who would want to hurt him, reports said.
About 9:55 p.m. Saturday, Mavis Pryor, 40, of East Auburndale Avenue on the South Side, was arrested on charges of felonious assault and domestic violence after she was accused of stabbing her daughter during an argument in Pryor’s home. Reports said Pryor told police she snapped during the argument and stabbed her daughter. Police found a knife in the kitchen sink that is the same kind suspected of causing the daughter’s wounds, reports said.
Pryor was taken to the Mahoning County jail.