YOUNGSTOWN — Police were sent to the area of Rush Boulevard, Florida Avenue, Cottage Grove and Philadelphia avenues on the South Side at 11:04 a.m. Friday for gunfire.

Shot Spotter notifications, which notify the police department of gunfire on the South Side, as well as callers from that area, and adding Boston and Avondale avenues to the list, according to a Youngstown police report.

Officers saw nothing on Rush Boulevard, then learned there was doorbell video from East Florida of a suspect vehicle. An officer went there to view the video, but officers also spoke with workers who said they heard 20 to 30 gunshots and they saw an orange Dodge Charger in the area “speeding and shooting as it was going down the road.”

An officer described the vehicle as a “Scat Pack with the black shaker hood, black spoiler and with the large 392 motor.” It was traveling fast west on Florida Avenue. then turned onto Cottage Grove.

A witness saw the car on Cottage Grove and saw two light-skinned males inside. Officers found 16 bullet shell casings on Cottage Grove.

A house on East Philadelphia Avenue had seven fresh bullet holes. No one answered the door there, so officers entered to conduct a welfare check on anyone inside. No one was there. Officers did not find anyone with injuries.

The report noted that on the previous evening, Thursday, there was a shooting that grazed a person’s head and that the incident involved a gold Dodge Challenger that may have been stolen out of another community.

Thursday’s police reports contained one involving a gunshot victim who had come to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital who had possibly been injured on Plum Street just west of downtown.

A separate report stated that two officers were sent to the hospital at 11:22 p.m. Thursday in connection to a shooting. That report only stated that the victim was treated for his injuries and was in stable condition.

TEEN

In another incident, a boy, 17, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and tampering with evidence early Saturday after he told police he had a handgun and items used to steal cars because a man he was in a car with told him to take the items and run.

At 12:22 a.m. Saturday, officers were at the Gateway Gas Mart, 3216 South Avenue, and saw Colon, who they knew to be a juvenile. They approached him, and Colon ran around the back of the gas station with a black bag. Officers found him near a garage receptacle and then saw him closer to he front of the store.

An officer went to the back and saw a clean, black satchel inside a tire. Inside were items commonly used to steal automobiles. Also in the area was a gun. The boy told the officer neither of the items were his, but a man in a car he was in told him to run with the items.

The boy was taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center on the charges.

GUN CHARGE

In another incident, Antwaun Reese, 27, was arraigned Monday in Youngstown Municipal Court on discharging a firearm in the city limits after a Friday night incident in the 3500 block of Hudson Avenue on the South Side in which 15 gunshots were detected by ShotSpotter, which alerts police to gunfire on the South Side.

The charge is a first-degree misdemeanor.

As officers responded to the location, officers spoke to a person who said the gunfire came from a group of six males who headed toward Ravenwood Avenue.

Officers saw a white car driving through the area and made a traffic stop. Reese, the driver, told police that he had a firearm under his seat, and it was recovered.

At about the same time, other officers found 14 bullet shell casings in the roadway in the area of Hudson and Ravenwood avenues, the report states.

Reese later “admitted to firing the weapon, stating that he was just showing off in front of his friends.”

He was issued a misdemeanor citation and advised that his arraignment would be Monday. The weapon was taken as evidence. Reese’s next hearing will be at 10:45 a.m. Oct. 15.