WARREN — The Youngstown Police Department released the identity of the man who died in a Tuesday evening crash on the South Side following a shots-fired incident at a South Side gas station.

The man was William E. Dorsey, 33, of Warren. No other identifying information on Dorsey was provided.

Capt. Jason Simon of the police department’s detective division stated in a news release that Dorsey was the only person who fired a gun in the incident that preceded the crash. “No other shooting suspects are being pursued at this time,” Simon stated.

The actions of a passenger in Dorsey’s car are still being investigated by detectives, and the actions of the officers who pursued Dorsey from a location on South Avenue for about six blocks to where he crashed are being reviewed by the department’s internal affairs division, Simon stated.

The crash is still under investigation by the police department’s accident investigation division.

The incident began at 6:03 p.m. with a conversation between Dorsey and another man outside of the South Avenue Gas Mart over a 20-year-old dispute, according to a police report.

Youngstown police said they heard gunfire at 6:03 p.m. just after the city’s Shot Spotter system picked up gunfire at 531 Pasadena Ave., which is about a block from the gas station.

An officer also reported seeing a black BMW leaving the gas station at high speed. This led officers to pursue the vehicle as it headed onto Dewey Avenue and then north onto Gibson Street, where it crashed into a concrete barrier at Gibson and Benwood avenues near Interstate 680. The location is about six blocks from the location on Dewey Avenue where the chase began.

SPEEDING CAR

Two officers also reported being on patrol in their cruiser when they heard gunfire behind them at the South Avenue Gas Mart. The officers turned the patrol car around and saw the black BMW turning onto East Dewey.

The BMW increased speed and went through a red light at East Dewey and Gibson Street and turned north onto Gibson. The officers activated their lights and siren, but the BMW was extending its distance in front of the police car as it neared Dixon Avenue.

Dorsey lost control, and the BMW struck a cement barrier on the bridge on Gibson Street, then began rolling before coming to stop near Lee Avenue. Dorsey was thrown from the vehicle.

A city woman, 32, exited the passenger seat of the vehicle. She was bleeding profusely from her arms, a police report states. One officer applied a tourniquet to her arm to slow the bleeding. Dorsey was declared dead at the scene, the report states.

LONG DISPUTE

Officers later investigated at the gas station and found multiple spent bullet shell casings on the ground in front of its entrance.

While officers were there, a woman approached them and said that her son and his father had been at the gas station earlier in her maroon Jeep Commander to put air in the tires.

While they were there, a man confronted them and shot at them, she said. Her Jeep was hit by the gunfire.

Police then went to the home of the boy, 14, and his father, 35, and learned from the father that while he was putting air in the tires, a man in a black BMW walked up and asked him if he remembered him.

The father said he “vaguely remembers him due to a fight from over 20 years ago. He stated that the man in the BMW then pulled out a gun and opened fire, which struck the Jeep, then sped out of the parking lot,” the report states.

The Jeep had bullet holes on both rear doors and rear windows. Two bullets were found — one on the driveway next to the right rear of the Jeep and one on the left rear passenger floor board of the vehicle.