Man tells police he was ambushed in driveway

YOUNGSTOWN — A North Lakeview Avenue man said he was ambushed by a masked man in his driveway as he came home from work late Saturday.

Officers were called about 11:55 p.m. Friday to the 21-year-old victim’s home in the 100 block of North Lakeview Avenue, where the victim told police a man dressed in all black hiding behind a car pulled out a gun and pointed it at the victim’s head.

Reports said the victim told the man he had nothing and the man forced the victim inside, where he punched and hit him in the head with the gun before the man ran away.

Nothing was taken, reports said.