Police: Woman takes child to fight another, fires a shot

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Reports said a woman who brought her two children to a Gluck Street home to fight another child was arrested after being accused of firing a gun at another woman.

Renada Torres, 34, of Rutledge Drive, is in the Mahoning County jail on charges of discharging a firearm in city limits, carrying concealed weapons, being a felon in illegal possession of a firearm and felonious assault.

According to police reports, a woman at the Gluck Street home on the East Side told police she took two of her children to her home so one of Torres’ children could fight one of the victim’s children.

Reports said the victim told police when the fight was over, one of Torres’ children said the victim threatened to shoot Torres, although the victim denied this.

Torres took a gun out of her purse, fired one shot at the victim and left, reports said.

Police found Torres with the two children walking away, reports said. Inside her purse, police found a .22-caliber revolver with a spent shell in the cylinder and four live rounds, reports said.

Court records show this is the second time Torres has been charged with being a felon in illegal possession of a firearm. In 2011, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison in common pleas court after she pleaded guilty to that charge.

Torres is not allowed to have a firearm because of two felony drug convictions in 2008.