YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown had shootings on Friday night on Sloane Avenue and Robinwood Place on the North Side and on North Phelps Street downtown Friday afternoon. On Saturday, a man was assaulted in the head and back with a hammer at the Shell gas station at 3200 Market St. on the South Side.

DOWNTOWN

In the downtown shooting, police were called at 3:38 p.m. to 34 N. Phelps Street, the Octave Live Music Cafe & Event Center, where officers found a man inside the rear door of the business with an apparent gunshot wound to the left thigh.

The man was treated at the scene by officers and ambulance personnel and then taken by ambulance to the hospital, where he was listed later as being in stable condition, a police report states.

Officers spoke to witnesses who said a man wearing a black jacket, white shirt, light color jeans and a backpack was driving a scooter north on Phelps Street when he fired a handgun, striking the victim.

The suspect then fled west on Commerce Street. Officers searched the area but did not find him. Evidence was collected by the Youngstown Police Crime Lab. Youngstown police detectives also came to the scene to investigate.

NORTH SIDE

In the Robinwood Place shooting, police responded at 11:14 p.m. Friday to the intersection of Sloane Avenue and Robinwood Place near the Brier Hill apartment complex for a shooting and found the crime scene.

A man was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment after “having been shot,” a Youngstown police report states. Crime scene investigators were called to the scene to investigate, the report states.

GAS STATION

The gas station assault took place at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Police were called to East Philadelphia Avenue on the South Side for an assault report and learned that the victim was injured at the gas station.

He said he was just walking through the parking lot of the gas station because he is not allowed inside the gas station when an unknown woman asked him for help pumping gas. He said he pumped her gas and a man in his early 30s, 5 feet 5 inches tall and about 155 pounds with a low haircut, got out of a gold car, and asked the woman if “this was the guy,” according to the police report.

The victim said he was then struck on the back of his head with a hammer. An officer said the victim had an “open laceration on the left side of his head just above the ear and a laceration on the left side of his back.”

He ran away and the vehicle chased him. He called the police from his home.

When asked whether he knew why someone would do this, he said he was at a South Side tavern recently and an unknown woman was dancing and shaking her body near his groin and he touched her, and she got upset.

He said he suspected that incident was related to the hammer assault, according to a Youngstown police report.

The man was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment.

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