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Woman hit; man charged with gun crime

2 shootings reported on S. Side in 24 hours

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman was grazed on the leg by a bullet late Monday in the 3100 block of South Avenue — a little less than 24 hours after a woman was critically injured by gunfire about a third of a mile away on Rush Boulevard.

Both shootings were on the South Side.

A Youngstown police report states that the Monday night shooting took place at 11:26 p.m. and injured a city woman, 34, who called police from her home.

Timothy J. Neail, 20, of East Lucius Avenue, was later charged with misdemeanor carrying a concealed weapon in the incident and will be arraigned today in Youngstown Municipal Court.

The victim said she only realized she had a gunshot wound to her leg after she got home and started to feel pain in that area. The woman was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment.

When police were called to South Avenue, it was for a large group of people fighting near a night club and barber shop. As officers traveled there, they were told there had been gunfire, including on East Avondale Avenue.

Officers saw a large group of people leaving the area. Officers were told Neail had assaulted three women with his hands and a pipe and had shot at them.

Other parties at the scene blamed the women for starting the altercation. The scene escalated with “different parties screaming at each other,” police said. Officers got the crowd to disperse.

An officer found four spent bullet shell casings on South Avenue between the night club and barbershop.

Police found Neail walking in the middle of the 500 block of East Avondale. An officer saw Neail’s hands in his hooded sweatshirt and later another object in the sweatshirt’s pockets that could have been a gun. The officer ordered Neail at gunpoint to put up his hands. Officers then found a handgun in the jacket pocket.

The firearm was warm, suggest that it had recently been fired, the officer said. Neail does not have a concealed carry license, according to a police report.

The jail would not take Neail because his charge was a misdemeanor.

Earlier, Damon L. Jefferson, 27, was charged with felonious assault in the 2:15 a.m. shooting Monday of his girlfriend at a home in the 2900 block of Rush Boulevard.

The woman, 23, who was found outside the home, was in critical condition at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital after the shooting, police said. Jefferson is expected to be arraigned today in that shooting.

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