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Woman found dead north of downtown

YOUNGSTOWN — The body of a woman was found Sunday morning on the ground in front of the Choffin Career and Technical Center at 200 E. Wood St., just north of downtown.

Lt. Mohammad Awad of the Youngstown Police Department said Monday there was no foul play involved in the woman’s death.

A report states that officers were called to the school at 10:30 a.m. Sunday for a woman on the ground who appeared to be deceased. When officers arrived, they found a white woman deceased on the sidewalk.

Ambulance personnel arrived and pronounced her deceased, the report states. Detectives and the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office were called out to investigate.

ARMED ROBBERY

Another weekend incident was at 11:11 p.m. Sunday when a pizza delivery driver reported being robbed at gunpoint by two men at a location on West Indianola Avenue on the South Side. A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to an address on Glenwood Avenue on the South Side for an armed robbery.

Officers spoke with a man who said he arrived at the address to deliver a pizza and two men pulled out guns and robbed him.

When officers went to the location on West Indianola, they found a cellphone, ID and bank card “scattered” along a driveway. Officers checked the area for the suspects, but did not find them, the report states.

The victim said he parked along Indianola facing a building and called a person named John to tell him the driver had arrived at the location. That is when the two men walked up to his car and took the pizza. The delivery driver got out of his car and one of the men pointed a gun at him with a laser attachment and told him to give him his money.

The other man went through the delivery driver’s pockets and took out his cellphone and cash. They ran off. The victim then went to a business on Glenwood Avenue to call 911. The driver said the suspects were six feet tall and skinny wearing all black with black masks.

A Youngstown police officer investigated the phone number the man used to order the pizza. He learned that two men, both 19, are associated with that phone number. The descriptions of the two men “fit the description” of the suspects in the robbery, the report states.

As of Monday afternoon, there were no arrests or updates in the case, Awad said.

BOY BITTEN

A boy, 7, was bitten by a pit bull on Pasadena Avenue on the South Side about 5 p.m. Friday, causing injuries to the boy’s ears, arm and back of his head, a police report states. The dog was loose in the boy’s front yard.

The boy’s mother said that by the time she reached the boy and the dog and hit the dog with a table leg, the dog ran off to its owner’s house across the street.

She took the boy to Akron Children’s Mahoning Valley in Boardman, and he was then transferred to the main campus in Akron “due to the severity of his wounds,” the report states.

Someone at the hospital told the mother to make a police report when she got home, and the woman reported the incident to police Sunday evening.

The report did not indicate whether police made contact with the owner of the dog.

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