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City shootings leave 2 injured

YOUNGSTOWN — A city man, 27, walked into St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital at 4:07 a.m. Sunday with a gunshot wound to his left hand that he said he suffered while on Oak Street.

He said he was sitting in a car when he heard about 15 gunshots and realized he had been hit. Officers checked Oak Street and could not find any evidence of gunfire taking place there.

A Youngstown police officer who responded to the hospital said the victim had a gun holster on his hip. He told a hospital police officer the holster was for his stun gun.

The man apparently had been dropped off at the hospital, Youngstown police said.

Police also investigated an 8:51 p.m. Friday shooting on Broadway Avenue at Griffith Street on the North Side that left a city man, 36, in critical condition.

Police responded to the location and found a man laying in the devil strip on the ground.

A concerned citizen reported the shooting. Police found the victim with an obvious gunshot wound of the abdomen.

He was extremely uncooperative, police said. He was taken by ambulance to nearby St. Elizabeth.

Multiple neighbors in the 600 block of Broadway reported hearing one gunshot before seeing the victim stumbling westbound on Broadway.

When the gunshot was heard, the victim was in front of a home leaning on a vehicle parked in front of the home, according to witnesses.

A man in a white shirt possibly connected to the shooting was seen running on Broadway before leaving in a vehicle, police said.

Police did not find any bullet shell casings.

erunyan@vindy.com

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