Staff photo / Ed Runyan.... This photo taken Tuesday shows the area to the right of the front door of the home on South Evanston Avenue where a girl, 11, was hit in the arm and elbow area by gunfire that came from one or more people shooting out front. Lots of other bullet holes can be seen above the front door.

YOUNGSTOWN — A child is recovering from a gunshot wound after a house on South Evanston Avenue was riddled with as many as 30 bullet holes.

One or more people opened fire from a car shortly before 4:30 p.m. Monday in front of the West Side house. The child’s mother told police “she heard gunshots, and everyone hit the floor, but (her daughter) ended up getting hit in the left forearm and elbow area.” A second child also was home but did not get hit by the gunfire.

The 11-year-old victim was rushed to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound. Police said the girl is doing well.

A Vindicator attempt to speak to the family on Tuesday was unsuccessful.

The bullets pocked the area to the right of the front door and the area above the front door. A neighbor said Tuesday about 30 bullet shell casings were on the street in front of the house after police investigators arrived and crime scene officers placed placards near each casing. There appeared to be a similar number of holes in the front of the home.

Capt. Jason Simon of the detective division of the Youngstown Police Department confirmed that about 30 casings recovered.

The neighbor said some of the bullets apparently went entirely through the house.

“It’s not the first one we’ve had on the street,” the resident said. Late last year, a man was shot in the leg in what the neighbor said was a confrontation outdoors between two men. Youngstown police reported that the man was shot about 9 p.m. Dec. 11. He survived, the neighbor said.

Many people on the street have lived there for many years, but one person moved out after the shooting in December, the resident said.

“It’s been crazy,” the resident said of the amount of crime and disruption neighbors have recently experienced.

South Evanston is off of Mahoning Avenue and not far from the All City Sports Bar and Grill, which city officials and a county common pleas court judge shut down for a year in January 2021 over nuisance complaints. The club is at 1692 and 1698 Mahoning Ave.

Youngstown Law Director Jeff Limbian requested an order closing the club because of numerous complaints about parking violations other illegal activity there. Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court ruled the owners would be allowed to remove their personal and business property prior to the final board-up and padlocking of the structure in January 2021.

The business was ordered to remain closed for one year from the “date of the hearing and final disposition” of the case. A hearing was held Oct. 22 and Oct. 23 of 2020. The city boarded up the bar Aug. 28, 2020.

The neighbor said when All City Sports was open, people would frequently use South Evanston to park their cars, which led to problems.

erunyan@vindy.com