Gunshots investigated in Warren

Staff report

WARREN

Two days after a bloody home invasion involving guns and a knife on West Market Street, individuals in a red minivan and blue pickup truck were involved in a gunfight at 9:10 p.m. Friday on Stewart Drive Northwest.

Two people arrived at St. Joseph Warren Hospital at 9:31 p.m., apparently seeking treatment for injuries suffered in the Stewart Drive episode, which left a witness who called 911 badly shaken.

“The truck pulled into my driveway,” the woman told a dispatcher in such a state that the dispatcher asked if she was injured.

“No,” the woman said. “I’m scared.”

The woman said she thought she heard about six gunshots.

“It was constant. There was no stopping; it kept going. And then, they peeled off,” she said of the two vehicles.

Another 911 caller said the gunfire occurred after the two vehicles lingered beside each other a short time in the street.

Another caller told a 911 operator he saw a red-and-beige Astro Van pull into a house on Northwest Boulevard Northwest, and several males got out of it and entered a white four-door Dodge car and “took off, speeding down Parkman Road.”

He said they were driving erratically. “They were flying, swerving around cars, everything,” the man said.

Police commented over the radio that they received reports during the day shift Friday that a newer white Dodge Charger was firing a weapon on the city’s East Side and West Side.

Two males were mentioned by police as being involved in the incident, one 19 and the other one 29, possibly at the hospital. A man who appeared to have dreadlocks also was described as being involved in firing a weapon, a witness said.

At 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, three people were injured in a home-invasion at a house in the 2000 block of West Market Street. One of the three left the home and made it to a house on Vermont Avenue Northwest, where he sought help. The man had suffered serious knife wounds to the back and front of his head and told the resident, “They tried to kill me!” The two other men apparently suffered gunshot wounds.

Police investigating that incident early Thursday said they did not yet know the identity of the knife victim, who had been flown by helicopter to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment.