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6-year-old girl shot on Detroit Avenue
TweetYOUNGSTOWN — A grade school girl was in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the chest, suffered during an apparent gun battle on the city’s South Side.
The 6-year-old Detroit Avenue girl was rushed to Akron Children’s Hospital Tuesday afternoon. Doctors did not find any bullets lodged inside the child and found no exit wounds where the bullet might have exited her body.
Police reports say the wound was likely a grazing.
By the late Tuesday afternoon Detroit Avenue was the picture of serenity. The girl’s gray ranch-style home was still, with several cars in the driveway, but no one appeared to be home. Teens played soccer in a nearby open field as cars traveled up and down the street unscathed.
Just hours earlier, around 1:30 p.m., bullets were flying.
Police were sent to the street for a possible shooting and found several spent shell casings in the street and along the devil strip.
The mother of the wounded child told police the girl was inside a car when she was struck by a bullet. Police searched the car but could not find any holes or damage to the vehicle.
According to police three males had been seen in a black Volkswagen shooting at another group of men driving a maroon Chrysler along Detroit Avenue. The cars fled at high speed immediately following the shooting.
Comments
Just some good old boys expressing themselves . I doubt if they have any remorse over shooting the girl . When it comes time for witnesses will anyone have seen anything ?
Instead of "Taking Care of Business" involving the criminal element in the City of Youngstown, our group of politicians, Hagan and Ryan, are more concerned about Abortion and Text-Messaging! Until you clean-up the town, Youngstown will continue to erode and waste away, and the criminal element "crawl" will continue to take hold of Boardman (off Shields Road), Austintown (in Wickliffe Area), and Liberty (North of Gypsy Lane). Coming Soon to a nearby bedroom community by you!
This really is demoralizing. Even though no address is given, the landmarks are enough to tell me this is my old neighborhood, which I still thought was among the safe ones in the city. There has got to be something more that can be done.
"By the late Tuesday afternoon Detroit Avenue was the picture of serenity."
What an ignorant line on several levels.
Although I do agree with alot of your comments, has anyone a clue as to how WE as a people, can change the situation at hand? I truly belive that it is not the town, but the people who unfortunatly have been imprisoned within the town. Can WE lead by example? One "most important" thing, could WE pray for this young child?