YOUNGSTOWN — Police arrested a man on three drug charges Wednesday afternoon after questioning him regarding Tuesday’s homicide on Mohawk Avenue.

Police on Thursday called Chantell L. Daniel, 21, of Country Club Avenue, a “person of interest” in the 5:30 p.m. killing of Rawsheem Aponte, 24, and wounding of a woman and 3-year-old in the car with Aponte. The two other victims survived.

Daniel will be arraigned today in Youngstown Municipal Court on charges of fentanyl-related compound possession, drug possession and misdemeanor drug possession. He is not charged in the shootings.

Several Youngstown police officers were following up on the Mohawk shooting Wednesday afternoon by canvassing the Brownlee Woods neighborhood on the South Side when they saw a 2012 burnt-orange Dodge Charger that matched the description of a vehicle involved in the homicide, a police report states. The time of the investigation was 1:39 p.m.

The vehicle also had the same front dealership plate and a white spot of bird droppings on the front, passenger quarter panel that was observed on surveillance video of the incident.

The officers notified the lead detectives in the case, and the detectives and officers continued the investigation by going to the home at Country Club Avenue where the woman owner of the Charger lives.

Police knocked at the door and Daniel eventually answered. He started to speak with detectives and asked if he could put on a pair of pants and sweatshirt near the door. An officer retrieved the clothing for him. Detectives determined that Daniel would be taken to the police station to be interviewed further about the shootings.

DRUGS AND CASH

Daniel asked if he could remove a bag of marijuana from his pants pocket and leave it at home. Inside the bag was a white powdery substance, police said. Officers put Daniel in handcuffs and placed him in the back of a police car.

Also inside the plastic bag was a smaller plastic bag containing fentanyl, another bag of Alprazolam pills and a smaller plastic bag of oxycodone pills, police said. Also found on Daniel and seized was $1,228 in cash.

After Daniel was finished at the Youngstown Police Department, he was taken to the Mahoning County jail on the three drug charges. Police also had the Charger towed from the home.

Top police officials held a news conference at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday to discuss the case and other issues. During the conference, Lt. Mohammad Awad told reporters that investigators “have some individuals and some vehicles in mind who we believe participated in” the Mohawk shootings. “This was targeted,” Awad said. “From the information we obtained, they were looking to cause violence last night.”

The night of the shootings, police said the department’s Neighborhood Response Unit was called just before 5:30 p.m. to the 3800 block of Mohawk Avenue on the South Side, where they found a chaotic scene involving a gray Chevrolet Camaro with three victims inside.

Police began life-saving measures on the woman, 23, who was shot in the leg. Her daughter, 3, was grazed on the leg by a bullet.

Aponte was killed, likely from gunfire, police said. Police estimated that at least 50 shots were fired.

MORE GUNFIRE

Meanwhile, Youngstown police investigated gunfire in the 200 block of East Lucius Avenue on the South Side on Wednesday afternoon that could be connected to another shooting in the city, possibly the shootings of two men at the Shell gas station, 3200 Market St., early Tuesday.

Police were called to East Lucius at 3:44 p.m. for gunshots. Police observed bullet shell casings on the street in front of an occupied home. No injuries were reported.

Police said five to 10 gunshots went through the front door and wall on the first floor and through a window and wall on the second floor. It damaged a television, windows and walls.

Witnesses said they saw a tan Chevrolet Suburban with a rusted- out body and two broken- out rear windows covered in plastic, speeding away. Two men were inside — one wearing an orange, camouflage hooded sweatshirt, police said.

The police department’s crime lab was contacted because of the vehicle matching the description of another shooting, the report stated. The police report did not say what shooting, but the 12:53 a.m. Tuesday shooting of two men at the Shell gas station involved a gold or silver early 2000s Chevrolet Suburban, according to police. Police released surveillance video showing the vehicle moments before one or more people fired guns out of it, hitting two men who were putting gas into their vehicles.

Two men were in stable condition afterward and are expected to recover, police said. The gunfire likely was targeted and not random, police said.

Police also investigated gunfire at 12:36 a.m. Thursday in the 600 block of Parkwood Avenue on the South Side that did not injure anyone. A resident reported two bullets went through an exterior wall. A child in the home said they heard a bullet “fly by (a) room.”

Also, police said a man was shot around 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the 400 block of West Indianola Avenue, also on the South Side. He was in stable condition, police said.