ATV strikes, drags ambulance worker

ATV strikes, drags ambulance worker

YOUNGSTOWN

An ambulance worker for Life Fleet ambulance suffered bruises and scrapes and ripped clothing when an all-terrain-vehicle driver struck and dragged him on the Center Street Bridge at 8:15 p.m. Thursday as he was speaking to an accident victim.

The worker said he and another worker were southbound on the bridge when they saw a silver van strike a silver car while both cars were moving. The car stopped, but the van fled.

The worker was talking to one of the occupants of the car on the bridge sidewalk when two ATVs sped toward him, and one of them struck him, dragging him 5 to 10 feet. The worker said it appeared the driver struck him on purpose because he never slowed down. The worker went to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital per company policy.

Man faces weapons, drug charges

YOUNGSTOWN

Jeffrey E. Southerland, 35, of West LaClede Avenue, was taken to the Mahoning County jail at 11:45 p.m. Thursday night, charged with carrying concealed weapons and marijuana possession after police found several weapons in his possession while investigating calls about New Year’s Eve gunfire.

Officers were called to the West Indianola and Chicago avenues area on the South Side, where they observed a man firing a long rifle in the yard at a Chicago home. Officers then saw Southerland throwing something – later determined to be a semiautomatic rifle – under a car.

As officers handcuffed Southerland, they found two handguns in his clothing and heard a great deal of gunfire coming from nearby streets.

As an officer remarked the amount of gunfire was “ridiculous,” Southerland said, “They started [shooting] early, so I started, too.”

Woman shot in thigh

WARREN

A woman, 23, of Warren, was shot in the thigh while walking in the area of Wick Street Southeast at 5 a.m. Thursday. She was able to flag down a car, and the driver took her to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital, where she was treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.

Repairs planned

CAMPBELL

Volunteers, contractors and organizations will work today on an apartment in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. company homes that will house up to four homeless veterans.

The first unit requires minor repairs, while the second unit will need a complete makeover.

Iron Soup Historical Preservation Co., in partnership with the American Food Forest and Youngstown Tent City will collaborate.

Volunteers and contractors will help with landscaping, cleaning, painting, drywall, plumbing, electrical and heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

More information is available at www.facebook.com/ironsouphistorical.

Videotaped stop

YOUNGSTOWN

A Youngstown man, 43, videotaped his traffic stop using his cellphone starting at 4:58 p.m. Thursday in the 2000 block of Mahoning Avenue, police said.

The stop occurred after officers observed the man squealing his tires on South Belle Vista Avenue just south of Mahoning on the West Side. Officers wrote him a citation and released him “without incident.”

The man “insisted the incident took place in the parking lot of the Circle K” and not on the roadway, police said.

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