Youngstown police investigating man shot Thursday night


YOUNGSTOWN — Police are investigating after a man was shot in the hip late Thursday.

Police were called about 10:50 p.m. to a home in the 400 block of Ferndale Avenue on the South Side, where witnesses said they drove past an SUV parked on the street with several people inside, heard a gunshot, then looked back to the see the SUV driving away and someone jump into a waiting car, which also drove.

A few moments later a 34-year-old man pulled into the emergency room parking lot of St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital with a gunshot wound, reports said. Police were not able to talk to the man as he was being treated but his wound was not considered life threatening, reports said.