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Homes on Sherwood, North Bon Air, damaged by gunfire; 2 arrested
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Reports said casings from assault weapons were found at the scene of two houses shot at Monday evening on the South and West sides of town.
No one was injured in either shooting.
Police, however, arrested two people at Sherwood and Glenwood avenues on the South Side after police stopped a car driving away in reverse at a high rate of speed from the site of the suspected gunfire. Police found two handguns inside their car.
Police were first about 8:20 p.m. to Sherwood, where they were investigating reports from gunfire sensors that multiple shots had been fired at two locations on the street.
An officer on patrol also heard the gunfire. When he turned onto Sherwood from Glenwood Avenue, reports said he saw the car driving in reverse.
Police stopped the car and searched it because it smelled heavily of marijuana, reports said.
Police said a .40-caliber Glock and a .45-caliber Glock were found underneath a seat. The passenger in that seat was Brad Walker, 24, of East Auburndale Avenue.
Also found in the car were 20 pills, reports said. The guns were also warm to the touch as if they had been recently fired, police added. Also found were two large bags of suspected marijuana, reports said.
Arrested on gun and drug charges were Walker and Trelevi Braxton-Johnson, 23, of Glenwood Avenue. Two homes in the 500 block of Sherwood Avenue were damaged by gunfire. Officers found casings from 9mm, .380-caliber, .40-caliber, .45-caliber and .223-caliber weapons, the latter of which is an assault-weapon round.
About an hour later, at 9:20 p.m., police were called to the 400 block of North Bon Air Avenue on the West Side, where they found a home damaged by gunfire.
Reports said the people in the home told police they heard several loud bangs. Officers found multiple bullet holes in the house, reports said.
In the street, police found a .40-caliber shell casing and a 7.62-mm shell casing, a type of ammunition often found in AK-47 or SKS assault rifles.
Police Chief Robin Lees said the shootings do not appear to be related.