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August 2, 2012

Police: 3 cases of shots fired

By Tom Davidson Herald Staff Writer

FARRELL — Bullets were flying through certain blocks of Farrell Tuesday, injuring a Sharon man and landing a Farrell man in Mercer County Jail.

Southwest Mercer County Regional Police Chief Riley Smoot said three incidents are being probed and they don’t appear to be “directly” related to one another. The only apparent common denominator: They happened Tuesday.

At 10:47 p.m., Raheem Hughes, 25, of Sharon, was shot while walking in the 100 block of Hamilton Avenue. He was hit four or five times, Smoot said, and taken to the emergency room of Sharon Regional Health System and subsequently transported to St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown, where his condition wasn’t being released, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Hughes was getting into a vehicle when the shooting started and the gunman fired “multiple” shots before the gun jammed, Smoot said.

The shooter wasn’t identified or arrested, Smoot said.

In another incident, Isiah Best told police he’d been shot at – but not hit – at 1:08 a.m. while leaving “Freak Village” the street name for the Lewis Landay Apartments between Union and Federal streets and Wallis and Fruit avenues.

Best, whose age or address wasn’t given in court papers, told police Eugene Phillips Jr., 20, of 1047 Hamilton Ave., Farrell, fired a black handgun at him after a confrontation.

Best said Phillips asked him if he “had a problem with Tyrell Wells.”

Best told police he said “no” and that Phillips called him a “bitch” and starting shooting at him as he ran down the 700 block of Union Street away from an alley east of the 900 block of Fruit Avenue, where Phillips was hanging out.

Phillips is charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangering and carrying a gun without a license. He was arraigned by District Judge Ronald E. Antos, Farrell, who set bail at $10,000.

About an hour later, in another shooting Smoot wouldn’t immediately link to the earlier gunplay, police were fired upon during a traffic stop in the 1000 block of Emerson Avenue.

“The subject was shooting at officers,” Smoot said.

The shooter was on a bike talking with people near the traffic stop and fired two volleys as he ran north in an alley toward French Street, Smoot said.

“No one was hit,” he said.

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