Gun found after cops respond to shooting call

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a man and cited a woman on drug charges after responding to a shooting call about 5:45 p.m. Thursday at a South Side store and finding a loaded handgun.

Tremond Naze, 28, of West Princeton Avenue, was arraigned in municipal court Friday before Judge Elizabeth Kobly on charges of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle and aggravating menacing. He remains in the Mahoning County jail in lieu of $12,500 bond.

Reports said officers were called to the Family Dollar store at 2708 Glenwood Ave., and when officer Mark Sember pulled into the parking lot, an SUV was trying to drive out at a very high speed. Witnesses called to Sember and told him the people inside the SUV were firing shots at them.

Sember used his cruiser to block the SUV from leaving and ordered everyone out at gunpoint, reports said. Reports said Naze refused several times to put his hands in the air, instead reaching down as though he was trying to hide something at his feet, before he came out of the SUV with his hands up.

Reports said the driver of the SUV granted officers permission to search it, and they found a partially loaded .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun on the floor of the back seat where Naze was sitting. Shell casings recovered at the store were the same kind of caliber as the gun found where Naze was sitting.

Officers also found eight Tramadol pills in the purse of Keeisha Ashley, 33, of Eddie Street. She was issued a citation on a charge of possession of drugs and released at the scene.

No one was injured during the shooting.