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Three Warren suffer major injuries in Saturday full of gunfire
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Arrest warrants have been issued for five people in connection with gunfire that injured three city men Saturday at two locations about a half-mile apart in the southwest part of the city.
Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, Warren police said Monday.
Men age 18 and 19 were hit by gunfire at 1380 Fifth St. SW at 12:43 p.m., police said. The 19-year-old, from Ferndale Avenue Southwest, said he was fighting with someone when a gunshot hit him in the arm. The man was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to a Cleveland hospital because of the seriousness of the wound, doctors told police.
The other man, 18, of an apartment in the Hampshire House Apartments, also at 1380 Fifth St. SW, said he was shot while walking to an apartment.
He said he was shot after an unidentified male confronted him about an argument he had with his girlfriend.
Both men said the man they were arguing with was not the person who shot him, but both said they did not know who did.
Meanwhile, at a home at 770 Fourth St. SW, gunfire started early Saturday – 4:48 a.m. – and continued at 9:30 a.m. before a shooting that injured a man, 25, of Southern Boulevard Northwest, at 4:35 p.m., police said.
The man was shot in the back while on the porch of the house, said Det. John Greaver, who added that the incidents on Fourth Street and Fifth Street do not appear to be related.
A Fourth Street Southwest woman said she was sitting on the porch when a maroon Lincoln Navigator pulled up at 4:48 a.m., and two men inside fired shots. Police found 10 shell casings in the driveway near the porch.
At 9:30 a.m., police were called back for more gunfire at the woman’s address, in which a male wearing a blue bandanna purportedly fired a gun into the home. Police found seven shell casings beside the driveway.
The woman said she left in her car after the 9:30 a.m. gunfire, but the car had been hit by a gunshot and became disabled. Another car parked beside the driveway was hit at least five times by bullets, she said. Three gunshots also hit the house and one hit the garage, police said.
The five people charged Sunday on arrest warrants are April Howell, 50, of Applecrest Court, Boardman, felony obstruction of justice; Reginald O’Neal, 25, of Palmyra Road Southwest, felonious assault; Dalshawn Bell, 22, of Elyria, discharging a firearm into a habitation; Tre Vaughn Walker, 22, of Youngstown, felony discharging a firearm into a habitation; and Jerame Provitt, 23, of Jackson Street Southwest, felony discharging a firearm into a habitation.