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Men hurt in confrontation on South Side

Shirley Road incident leads to gunfire, car wreck, injuriesBy ED RUNYAN Staff writer YOUNGSTOWN — Two men got into a confrontation at a Shirley Road home on the South Side Wednesday afternoon, resulting in gunfire, a car wreck, both men being injured and facing possible criminal charges, but no one was hit by gunfire. The incident began at 12:15 p.m. on Shirley Road when an officer responded there for gunfire, a fight and a man in black fleeing. When an officer got close to the location of the call, he saw a male in black at the corner of Shirley Road and East Boston Avenue who was bleeding from the head and upper nose between the eyes, a report states. The man was never identified by name in the report. He said he had come to pick up his daughter and got into a fight with a male at the home. He said the male pulled out a gun and fired at him so he ran into him with his car. The male who fired at him is named in the police report, but he appeared to have no new charges on file Thursday afternoon in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — Two men got into a confrontation at a Shirley Road home on the South Side Wednesday afternoon, resulting in gunfire, a car wreck, both men being injured and facing possible criminal charges, but no one was hit by gunfire.

The incident began at 12:15 p.m. on Shirley Road when an officer responded there for gunfire, a fight and a man in black fleeing. When an officer got close to the location of the call, he saw a male in black at the corner of Shirley Road and East Boston Avenue who was bleeding from the head and upper nose between the eyes, a report states. The man was never identified by name in the report.

He said he had come to pick up his daughter and got into a fight with a male at the home. He said the male pulled out a gun and fired at him so he ran into him with his car. The male who fired at him is named in the police report, but he appeared to have no new charges on file Thursday afternoon in Youngstown Municipal Court. He also did not appear to be in the Mahoning County jail Thursday afternoon, according to jail records.

It is not known where the other male is presently.

The officer put the male in handcuffs in the back of the cruiser and called for an ambulance. The officer walked two houses down and saw a black BMW that had crashed into the home and into the back driver’s side of a red Mitsubishi in the driveway. There were two bullet shell casings on the ground next to the driver’s door of the BMW, which had broken windows and two bullet holes on the front passenger window. A home next door was struck by a bullet. An ambulance was taking a male away to the hospital who had been hit by a car, the report states.

A woman living in the home said her mother was in the red Mitsubishi waiting for the father of her 2-year-old daughter to pick up the girl for visitation.

Her new boyfriend was in a white Jeep behind the house. She said she told her new boyfriend to pull his car behind the house because her child’s father was coming to the house and they don’t get along.

When the child’s father arrived, he put the girl in his BMW and saw the white car in the backyard, approached it and began to argue with the new boyfriend and started to throw punches. She said she tried to break it up, but her new boyfriend pulled out a gun and hit the child’s father with it, causing a cut on the head. The girl’s father then left in the BMW with his daughter in it.

Her new boyfriend then fired two times, hitting the girl’s father’s car, with at least one bullet going through the passenger front window of the BMW and into a home next door. The girl’s father then put the BMW in drive and “gunned it,” striking back of the red Mitsubishi in the driveway, striking the new boyfriend and the home, damaging “all,” the report stated.

The woman in the red Mitsubishi was not injured. The child’s father then fled to the location where the officer encountered him at Shirley Road and Boston Avenue. Both men were taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. The girl’s father had injuries to his head. The woman’s new boyfriend had severe injuries to the lower part of his body. Both men were in stable condition later at the hospital.

A firearm was found inside a bedroom of the home. The BMW and Jeep belonging to the two males were towed so that they could be inspected by detectives. Both men were told they were being charged with felonious assault and were guarded while in the hospital.

The child in the car at the time of the shooting was not injured. Two cellphones at the feet of the father of the child when the officer encountered him on Boston Avenue were also collected as evidence, the report states.

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