YOUNGSTOWN — In addition to a homicide and a fatal crash, Youngstown police were kept especially busy over the weekend with incidents involving gunfire and illegal gun possession, especially involving men with juvenile criminal records.

People damaging property and creating other nuisances also took place.

Capt. Jason Simon of the Youngstown Police detective division said Monday that the police department “saw a marked increase in calls for service, arrests and critical incidents requiring the need for specialized units, such as detectives and accident investigators.”

He said that in spite of the increased volume, officers performed at “an exceptional level.”

Police provided news releases Saturday and Sunday regarding Raymond K. Butler Jr., 28, being fatally shot early Sunday at Gibson Street and Poland Avenue and a woman, 55, being killed in a 5:55 p.m. Saturday crash at Southern and Midlothian boulevards.

On Monday, the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office identified the woman killed in the crash as Donna Elifritz. The crash remains under investigation by the Youngstown Police Department and coroner’s office, the Monday news release stated.

Butler was shot to death early Sunday in a vehicle he was driving at the intersection of Gibson Street and Poland Avenues just southeast of downtown. Youngstown police were dispatched to the location at 3:58 a.m. for reports of a person shot inside a vehicle and found Butler. He was pronounced dead at the scene, a Youngstown police news release states. Youngstown police have asked the public to provide clues into the case, saying there were “numerous people in the area at the time this incident occurred.”

Also on Monday, Youngstown police released reports on several cases in which men were found to be possessing firearms improperly, people were trespassing with vehicles in the Salt Springs Industrial Park and damaging the city’s Henry Stambaugh Golf Course.

GUN

At 10:51 p.m. a.m. Friday, police officers on patrol saw a Chevrolet Equinox traveling fast in Idlewood Avenue on the South side. The officer caught up to the vehicle as it turned onto West Ravenwood Avenue at Hillman Street. Officers made a traffic stop, a police report states.

The occupant, Kavon Huggins, 22, told the officer there was a handgun in the vehicle. Officers learned that Huggins was not allowed to possess a weapon because of his juvenile court felony record, so he was charged with improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle, a low-level felony.

FOOT CHASE

At 4:44 a.m. Sunday, officers were sent to Mistletoe Avenue on the South Side regarding a fight with a weapon. When officers arrived, three men ran from a white Acura toward a home on Mistletoe, a police report states.

An officer apprehended John Johnson, 19, near the front door and found a handgun in the front of his pants. The officer took possession of the gun. Johnson had an earlier juvenile felony conviction and was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and obstructing official business, low-level felonies, and was scheduled for arraignment Monday in Youngstown Municipal Court.

An officer also apprehended David Anderson, 18, in the vehicle after finding a handgun on the floor of the vehicle near Anderson. He was charged in Youngstown Municipal Court with the low-level felony of improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle and was set for arraignment Monday.

The third person in the car apparently got away.

EAST SIDE

At 4:57 p.m. Saturday, officers were called to Kendis Circle on the East Side for a fight and spoke to a woman who said she was outside playing in a pool with her kids and a man approached from the woods with his daughter and current girlfriend’s kids.

She said the man, D’Aundre Turner, 27, shoved her head and neck backward then pulled a gun out and pointed it at her and threatened to shoot her, a report states. Turner left but returned later with his girlfriend, who also had a gun and also threatened to shoot her, the report states.

Turner was charged with misdemeanor assault and misdemeanor aggravated menacing. He also was scheduled for an arraignment Monday in Youngstown Municipal Court.

GUNFIRE

At 3:44 a.m. Saturday, police were called to South Avenue regarding eight shots picked up on the Shot Spotter system, which alerts Youngstown police to gunfire on the South Side.

Officers did not find any shooting victims or damage but they found eight bullet shell casings in the road for a distance ending at East Judson Avenue. The casings were collected as evidence.

VEHICLE CHASE

At 11:53 p.m. Saturday, officers saw a pickup truck at Cleveland and Market streets on the South Side failing to stop at a stop sign and tried to make a traffic stop. The driver fled at a high rate of speed south on Market Street, a report states. The pursuit continued onto several other streets and into Campbell, then off-road.

Campbell police intercepted the vehicle, and a passenger got out of the vehicle, walked to officers and was apprehended. A second man got out of the back seat, walked toward officers and was apprehended. No charges were filed against those two men, apparently.

The driver kept driving, this time in the downtown Youngstown area at a time when there were about 200 people outside of the Social Club on Commerce Street downtown, the report states. A Youngstown officer used a spike strip to disable the vehicle a short distance down Commerce Street near Fifth Avenue.

The driver, a boy, 16, of Campbell, was ordered out of the vehicle and was handcuffed. He was taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center on felony failure to comply, which is a mid-level felony; and misdemeanor obstructing official business. He will be arraigned today in Mahoning County Juvenile Court.

At about 12:10 a.m. Sunday, an officer on patrol at Salt Springs Road and Geoffrey Trail on the West Side of Youngstown saw several vehicles parked on Geoffrey Trail and some in the parking lot of 2870 Salt Springs Road (Cardinal Environmental Lab), an area where street racing has happened in the past, the report states. That business has called YPD in the past to report trespassing on their property during early-morning hours, the report noted.

The officer detained three vehicles in the parking lot, speaking to a father and son in a black Eagle Talon, a driver and passenger in a red Dodge Ram and a driver and passenger in a black Dodge Ram.

All admitted they had no business purpose to be on the property. The drivers were charged with fourth-degree misdemeanor criminal trespass and were arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court Monday.

GOLF COURSE

At 11:51 a.m. Friday, officers were called to the Henry Stambaugh Golf Course on Gypsy Lane on the North Side for damage. A golf course supervisor said that between 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday and again between 8:30 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday, individuals damaged greens number 2 and 7. Green No. 8 was damaged about two weeks earlier, the official said. “Turf from the greens was torn up in a similar fashion in all three incidents,” the official said.