Warren boy, injured by flying glass from gunshot; second male shot in forearm during robbery

Staff report

WARREN

A city boy, 11, was injured Sunday afternoon by flying glass from gunfire hitting a car in which he was a passenger on Scott Street Northeast.

The boy’s mother took the boy to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital, at first thinking he had been hit by the gunshot. But she realized on the way to the hospital that the cuts to his arm and torso came from the glass.

The woman had stopped her car on Scott Street to wait for her sister to get in the car at 4:37 p.m. when a male pointed the gun at a rear window and fired. The bullet passed through her driver’s window on the way out, narrowly missing her, she said.

The woman said there were several males about 30 years old wearing basketball shorts and white T-shirts on Plymouth Street near Scott at the time.

In another incident involving a gun, a man was shot in the forearm and told police it occurred while he was being robbed by two men who broke into his house at 12:45 a.m. Monday in the 900 block of Tod Avenue Northwest.

The victim, 33, who was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital, said he was sleeping in his house when two males wearing masks came inside and demanded the victim’s “stuff.” One had a gun.

The victim said he reached for the gun, and the suspects punched him and hit him with the gun. Then he heard the gun go off several times. The victim then hit the gun in a way that made the ammunition magazine fall out, and the suspects fled.

Police found the magazine with 11 live rounds in it on the floor next to a broken recliner. They also found blood and a shell casing nearby.

In a 1 a.m. Sunday incident, a male threatened a woman with a gun, then assaulted her on Williamsburg Street Northwest.

The woman said the male, whom she knows, was playing with his gun and asking the woman, 27, to show him her bank account on her phone, but she refused. The man hit her in the head and fired the gun into the floor.

The man held the gun to her head and again demanded to see her bank account, but the woman again refused. He hit her in the head and face, then walked outside and fired into her swimming pool and fled, police said.

The woman had a bloody nose and swollen lip but refused treatment from ambulance personnel.

In a Friday night incident, a man, 28, suffered a minor injury when he was robbed and beaten up by two males in a red pickup truck on Porter Street Northeast.

The victim said the two males came to his home and attacked him in the doorway, one of them choking him, and took $700 in cash from his pockets and his prescription medication.

The man had bruising and swelling around his eye and scrapes and abrasions on his back, knees and elbows. He received treatment from ambulance personnel.