Mistaken identity

YOUNGSTOWN

A man was hospitalized after being shot in the leg early Thursday morning near the intersection of Hilton and South avenues and JQ’s Convenient Store.

The man told an officer who met with the man hours later at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital he was hit in his right leg, just below the knee.

He said a black-colored vehicle pulled up alongside him while he was walking and someone on the driver’s side of the vehicle pulled out a shotgun and fired twice. The ammunition appeared to be buckshot, due to the nature of the wound, the officer noted.

“[The man] does not know who may have done this to him and he believes the assailant(s) may have mistaken him for someone else,” the report states.