Video captures fight in Geno’s Drive-Thru
Submitted photo This screen shot of a store surveillance video shows two men fighting May 26 in a South Side drive-thru and a woman, shown in the pink shirt, intervening to help stop it.
YOUNGSTOWN — A 9:53 p.m. fight May 26 at Geno’s Drive-Thru on Midlothian Boulevard was captured on store surveillance that has been viewed more than 1,000 times on Facebook.
A Youngstown police report released Monday states that an officer was sent to the business for a large fight. The officer said he spoke to the store manager, who said a man in black clothing and a man in orange got into a fight inside the store, breaking bottles and hitting each other with them.
The store manager said the man in orange had a large gash on his head. It stated that all parties were gone before officers arrived. The report mentioned that the incident “is all on video.”
The video shows the man in black walking up to the man in orange, who is standing near the cashier at the counter. A long line of people runs along one wall waiting in line to make their purchases.
The two men speak briefly before the man in black throws a punch that misses the man in orange, who ducked.
Lots of punches were then exchanged between the two men as they fought in an aisle with no customers and bottles fell to the floor. A woman quickly approaches the two men with her hands outstretched toward the men in an obvious attempt to intervene in the fight to break it up.
She grabbed the back and arms of the man in orange as the man in black continued to punch, pushing the man in orange toward the floor as the woman tried to hold on. It was apparent she was trying to stop the man in black from throwing any more punches.
Eventually she pushed the man in black toward the door and pointed, apparently yelling for him to leave, as the man in orange fell in the other direction and finally got up as the man in black disappeared from the video, as did the woman.
The Vindicator went to the store Monday afternoon to ask about the video and the incident, but a reporter was told that management had left and there was no one there to talk about it.
The report does not indicate that anyone was charged in the incident. But the video is extremely clear. The video takes about 30 seconds from the start to the finish of the fight.

