Four people arrested after Boardman woman reports gun threat

Staff report

BOARDMAN

Four people face charges after township police were dispatched to a Cook Avenue apartment in reference to “multiple suspects threatening to shoot the caller,” according to a police report.

When police arrived, they reported encountering “a large group of subjects” on Cook Avenue and another on Dover Road.

The caller told police that three people she knows “approached her residence and stood outside her apartment windows,” according to the report.

“All three subjects continually threatened to shoot up her house and stated, ‘We’re gonna kill you,’” according to the report. The woman also reported seeing two of the suspects pointing guns at her apartment.

Charged in connection with the incident are: Jontae Revere, 27, of Detroit Avenue in Youngstown, aggravated menacing; Dafiness Patterson, 19, of East Midlothian Boulevard in Youngstown, drug possession and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle; Shalaunda Adkins, 42, of Shadyside Drive in Youngstown, aggravated menacing; and Jujuan Pinkard, 24, of Shadyside Drive in Youngstown, aggravated menacing.

Police reported finding a gun in the glove box of Patterson’s vehicle and 12.8 grams of suspected cocaine in the driver’s side door. Police also seized $108 found in Patterson’s bra, according to the report.