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Separate stabbing, shootings said to be near same club

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman was confirmed shot in the face and a man was thought also to have been shot at the same time early Saturday, and a woman was stabbed early Saturday — both possibly near the same South Side motorcycle club on Gibson Street, according to two Youngstown police reports.

Ja’Asia Roberts, 23, was charged with felonious assault in the stabbing, which the reports suggested was the most serious injury, with the victim being described as being in critical condition.

Youngstown police were called to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital at 5:36 a.m. Saturday for a stabbing. Officers were told the victim had been stabbed multiple times, her vital signs were unstable and she was considered critical.

Officers learned of possible witnesses at the hospital and went to speak with them. But the police report blacked out what they learned from them.

While officers were still at the hospital, they were told that a person called 911 to report that she had been “jumped at Afro Dogs, and her phone was stolen.” The caller was later identified as Roberts, who said she suffered injuries in a fight. She said she was wearing pink clothing, which matched what witnesses said the suspect who committed the stabbing was wearing, the report states.

Roberts went to the Youngstown Police Department and spoke with detectives, and she was arrested on a charge of felonious assault.

She was taken by police to the hospital “to be medically cleared before being taken to the county jail.” Roberts’ jail mug shows her to have a swollen-shut right eye.

Roberts was arraigned Monday afternoon in Youngstown Municipal Court on the felonious assault charge. If she were convicted of felonious assault, she could get about eight years in prison.

Afro Dogs is the name of a small building on Gibson Street on the South Side with a Facebook page that describes it as a private motorcycle club. It is located near the Youngstown Wastewater Treatment Plant on Poland Avenue.

SHOOTINGS

The shootings report states that a Youngstown officer was stationary in the parking lot of a gas station in the 1900 block of South Avenue when a car pulled up beside him at 4:40 a.m. Sunday, and two women got out, including one who was covered in blood, who said she had been shot in the face. The other woman, the passenger of the car, said she was not injured.

The officer requested more officers and an ambulance, and he started providing first aid, applying pressure to the entrance wound in her cheek and the exit wound below her earlobe on the same side of her face.

They said they were on their way to the hospital when they saw the cruiser.

The women said they had gone to The Social bar on Commerce Street downtown that night and then were in the parking lot of a “bar” that the officer surmised was Afro Dogs, “based on their description,” the report states.

The women said they were leaving the area of the club with another car in front of them with “guy friends” in it when gunfire began. Both cars were hit.

Later on, it was discovered both the driver of the (women’s) car and the driver of the other car had been shot, the report states.

An ambulance arrived at the gas station and took the woman to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

The report did not provide any information on the man in the other car who also had been shot.

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