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Shooting at Compass West likely a set-up

AUSTINTOWN — More details have emerged about a shooting that left one man in critical condition and another in jail.

An Austintown Police Department report states that the two men involved in the Wednesday shooting at Compass West Apartments were at a gathering inside the building, and the occupant of that apartment may be responsible for the incident.

Police responded to 1001 Compass West Drive at about 3 p.m. Wednesday for a report of gunshots.

One man was taken by ambulance to the hospital and listed in critical condition. Police have not provided an update on his condition since then. Another man involved in the shooting, Mikklo Delgado, 23, of Youngstown, went to the hospital by car. He was later arrested and charged with felonious assault and improperly discharging a firearm into a habitation, both second-degree felonies; tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; inducing panic, a fourth-degree felony; and possession of criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony. He remains in the Mahoning County jail on a $500,000 cash or surety bond.

The police report states that the shooting happened in the hallway of the building, and as officers were checking the building to see if any residents had been struck by gunfire, they saw a trail of blood near apartment 7.

Upon speaking with the resident there, Aleyah Wilson, police learned that the two men had been in her apartment immediately before the shooting.

Wilson told police that it was just a gathering of friends, but she found out that the two men had guns in their bags, and she made them leave.

She said the gunfire erupted in the hallway moments after she closed her apartment door.

However, another person in the apartment told police in a separate room that Wilson had brought the men there as a set-up for a robbery. The person said they tried to warn the men before the two exited the apartment.

The report states Delgado was taken to the hospital in one of the cars that was seen leaving the apartment complex, and he was arrested after being treated and found to be in stable condition.

The report also details how police administered immediate first-aid to the more severely wounded man before a Lane LifeTrans ambulance arrived to take him to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

The officer found him to have a gunshot wound to the stomach and applied two chest seals to the front and back of his body. Chest seals stop air from entering the chest cavity, preventing the lungs from collapsing, allowing patients to breathe until an ambulance arrives. The man was taken into surgery for his wounds.

The press release from Thursday, announcing Delgado’s arrest, stated the incident remains under investigation and more arrests and charges seem likely.

As of Friday afternoon, court records do not indicate that any charges have been filed against Wilson.

Delgado is due for an initial appearance in Mahoning County Austintown Court on Monday.

In October 2020, Delgado was charged in Youngstown with improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle, a fourth-degree felony. In February 2021, he pleaded guilty to that charge, and two associated misdemeanor charges were dropped. Judge R. Scott Krichbaum sentenced him to six to 18 months of probation.

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