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Shootings, stabbings, beatings, keep cops busy
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A series of shootings, stabbings, a chase and a beating over the holiday weekend kept city police busy.
Reports said witnesses gave conflicting accounts Monday after a man was shot about 7:40 p.m. in the 3000 block of Oregon Avenue.
When officers arrived, people on both sides of the street were shouting at each other, and police found five 9 mm shell casings.
The 32-year-old victim was driven by private car to Northside Medical Center.
About 11:10 p.m. Sunday, police found a man stabbed in a home in the 600 block of West Boston Avenue on the South Side. The man told police he was outside on the sidewalk when someone stabbed him. The 26-year-old man was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital to be treated for a stab wound to the stomach.
About 2:30 a.m. Sunday, a man at a 25 Market St. apartment downtown said a woman cut him on the arm with a meat cleaver. Reports said both the victim and the woman were very drunk and police could not sort out their stories. The man was also treated at St. Elizabeth.
About 8:15 p.m. Saturday, police were called to St. Elizabeth when a man showed up with a gunshot wound to the hand. The man told police he was walking on Sherwood Avenue on the South Side when he was approached by two men, one of them with a gun, and they struggled. As they struggled, the gun went off.
The man told police a person he knows gave him a ride to the hospital.
About 7:55 p.m. Saturday, police were called to Lora and Fifth avenues on the North Side, where they found a man in a car who was hit in the head with a baseball bat. Reports said the man was bleeding from the head and he had a black eye. The man said he was waiting for his daughter when his son came out and hit him.
Police found a car that may have been driven by the victim’s son and had it towed for evidence after finding out it had expired plates, reports said.
In municipal court Tuesday, a Byron Street man was given a $10,000 bond after his arrest for a chase Friday night on the East Side, where police lost sight of his car twice.
Reports said officers about 8 p.m. tried to pull over a car driven by Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, 31, for excessive window tint and a defective muffler at Bennington Avenue and McGuffey Road when the car sped up, reaching speeds at one point up to 90 miles per hour before police lost sight of it.
A few minutes later, another officer spotted the car on Wilson Avenue and he again drove away at speeds up to 70 mph, reports said.
Reports said officers found the car a short time later behind a South Jackson Street home and tracked Cuevas-Garcia to a nearby home by following footprints in the grass. He was taken to the Mahoning County jail, where he was held until his arraignment.