YOUNGSTOWN — Residents of Dogwood Lane in the southwest area of the city reported seeing gunfire coming from two cars in front of a home early Saturday.

The cars were a white Dodge Durango and a white Chevrolet Malibu, the report states. Officers were dispatched to the location at 3:40 a.m.

The resident of the home reported being inside the house when he or she heard multiple gunshots and went outside to see his or her car parked in front of the house with its back window shot out and a bullet hole in the front windshield.

Youngstown police officers checked the area and did not find any other structures or vehicles that had been hit by gunfire. Officers found multiple bullet shell casings nearby — 16 of one caliber and one of another caliber. No injuries were mentioned.

OTHER GUNFIRE

Meanwhile, at 1:40 a.m. Sunday, gunfire was reported on East Dewey Avenue on the South Side.

Officers were sent to the area at 1:40 a.m. for a ShotSpotter notification at that location for 10 gunshots. An officer learned that people had been kicked out of a party at that location, and they “began to shoot,” a police report states. An officer saw damage to a front window of the house.

Officers found spent bullet shell casings in the street.

A person told police that two or three people went to the home wearing ski masks and all black clothing. One of them spilled a drink on a woman and an argument ensued, the report states. That is when they were kicked out and the gunfire took place, officers were told.

One man at the scene had a scratch on hand. Medical attention for the scratch was refused. While officers were there, another man entered the house, and others told the man he knew who the shooters were. He said there were two separate incidents. Ten bullet shell casings and a bullet fragment found inside the house were gathered as evidence, the report states.

DOWNTOWN LIBRARY

At 11:25 a.m. Saturday, officers were called to the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 305 Wick Ave., for a patron fighting with staff and other patrons.

Officers spoke with a security guard, who said a man with curly hair had just fled down the street after threatening patrons, throwing signs and equipment in the direction of staff members and patrons, and threatening to kill the security guard and another security guard.

Officers checked the area and found Richard W. Lightbody, 33, on a bicycle at Wick Avenue and Commerce Street downtown. Officers caught up with him near the WRTA bus station downtown and took him into custody. He matched the description of the man from the library and mentioned the security officers at the library without officers mentioning the library, the report states.

Officers then spoke with a second security guard, who said Lightbody was causing a disturbance and being loud, threatening other patrons and trying to intimidate library staff. After he was asked to leave, he called the security guard a derogatory name and told him he would kill him, the report states. He physically charged at the security guard, who restrained Lightbody, but Lightbody was able to leave the library.

Lightbody was arraigned Monday on two counts of aggravated menacing and one count of criminal mischief, all first-degree misdemeanors. He remained in the Mahoning County jail Monday morning.