Boardman police investigate shooting

Staff report

BOARDMAN

Township police are investigating a shooting last week at a Schenley Avenue apartment, according to a police report released Tuesday.

The report says police were dispatched to a building in the 3900 block of South Schenley about 11:30 p.m. last Wednesday after someone called to report that someone was “shot and [they] think killed.”

Police reported finding drops of blood in a hallway and outside the door of an apartment. They also noted that the door to that apartment appeared to have been forced open.

Inside the apartment, police did not find anyone, but did report seeing a digital scale “with a folded piece of cardboard containing a white powder substance,” a suspected marijuana blunt and a bag of suspected heroin.

Youngstown police then contacted Boardman police to report that a woman with a gunshot wound, who said she was shot at a Boardman apartment, was at Big A’s drive-thru on Glenwood Avenue. She was taken to an area hospital for a gunshot wound to the leg, according to the report.

When police spoke to the woman, 21, of Akron, she told them she had been hanging out with a man she met via Instagram, and that the apartment was rented by a friend of his. She told police she knew the man only by his Instagram user name. She said the two went to the apartment to meet up with another male who needed a ride to Cleveland.

While the group was leaving the apartment, several men wearing ski masks rushed the door and one put a gun to her head, she said. Some of the men went up to the apartment, then came back down and left, she said.

Before they left, the woman said she heard them asking each other, “Did you get it?”

At one point, one of the men apparently thought she saw his face and shot her in the leg, the woman said.

One of the men the woman had been hanging out with took her to Big A’s, brought her into the store, and told someone to call an ambulance, according to the report.

Someone at the convenience store called for help. The man who dropped off the gunshot victim left before police arrived.