Rash of weekend shootings keeps Warren police busy

Staff report

WARREN

A man was hospitalized after a shooting Saturday, part of a rash of shootings in the city that started in the early morning, police reported Sunday afternoon.

“The last we heard, he was in stable condition,” said Sgt. Bryan Holmes. He said the man, 20, was shot once around 4:45 p.m. at a house in the 700 block of Fourth Street Southwest. He said he doesn’t know if the man lives at the house.

“We’re following up leads on suspects as we speak,” he said.

Holmes said police were called out to the first shooting Saturday at 2:30 a.m. at the Powerhouse Bar on Mahoning Avenue Northwest.

There, they found no victim, no suspects and no cooperating witnesses, he said — only shell casings.

Holmes said that at 5 a.m., police were called out to reports that the same house in the 700 block of Fourth Street had been shot up. In the 5 a.m. shooting, no one was hit.

At 9 a.m., he said, someone shot at a vehicle parked at that house.

“Then, around 1 p.m., Trumbull Memorial Hospital contacted us,” Holmes said, “in reference to two males who each sustained gunshot wounds.”

The two, 18 and 19, do not have life-threatening injuries, he said.

He said police don’t know if the shootings of the 18- and 19-year-olds are related to the others.