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One of four victims remains critical in Oct. 9 shooting

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman remains in critical condition after she was one of four people shot late Oct. 9 on West Willis Avenue on the South Side.

A Youngstown police report states that officers were called there at 10:58 p.m. for a shooting.

Capt. Jason Simon of the Youngstown Police detective division said Wednesday the victims were three females and one male. Two of the injured individuals are juveniles, he said.

No arrests have been made in the case. Simon stated in an email that the police department asks anyone with information to contact the police department’s detective division at 330-746-8973 or call Crime Stoppers at 330-746-2583.

Other news media have reported that the shootings occurred in the 300 block of Willis Avenue, which is near Hillman Street. The police report provides few details, such as how many people were shot, their ages or what they were doing at the time they were shot.

A police report regarding a vehicle chase early Saturday that began after officers saw a black Dodge Charger traveling north on Steel Street on the West Side at a high rate of speed mentions the Thursday shootings of the four people.

It states that the Charger “matched the description of a suspect vehicle involved in the quadruple shooting on Willis Avenue,” but Simon stated Wednesday that there is “no evidence to suggest the Dodge Charger is connected to the Willis shooting.”

The Charger incident began on Steel Street at about 2:15 a.m. and ended with officers finding the Charger on a dirt road in the area. The registration for the Charger came back to a 2007 BMW out of Columbiana County, the report states.

Officers from Youngstown, the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Weathersfield Township and Girard police departments searched the area for the driver / and or other occupants but did not find anyone, the report states.

OTHER OCT. 9 INCIDENTS

In addition to the shootings of the four people late Oct. 9, a Youngstown police officer was shot at about 12:30 that afternoon at a home on Rush Boulevard on the South Side.

That incident also involved the other person involved in the shooting being found dead afterward, though a city spokesman said it was not clear yet whether that person’s wounds were self-inflicted.

And also Oct. 9, the body of George Westhead, 63, was found under a bush in the backyard of a home at 634 Almyra Ave. on the South Side after police were called there at 2:39 p.m. Police are investigating this death as “suspicious.”

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