CLEVELAND, Ohio — A man in a car ambushed and shot several teens as they left a Cleveland grocery store, according to police reports.
The shooting left the two 14-year-old girls, a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old gunshot wounds, according to police. A 30-year-old Cleveland Heights man was also shot, police reports say.
The shooting happened about 8 p.m. Monday behind Glenville Gas and Market on Ostend Avenue and East 105th Street in the city’s Glenville neighborhood.
Surveillance video reviewed by police showed that a car waited outside the store. When the teens emerged, the car started driving and someone opened fire on the group. At least 10 shots were fired, according to police reports.
The group dove on the ground when they heard the gunfire, then ran off, police reports say. Police found one 14-year-old girl on the front porch of a nearby home, where bystanders were helping her.
She was shot in the left thigh, the other 14-year-old girl was shot in the left leg and the 16-year-old boy was shot in the foot, according to police.
A bullet ricochet and struck the 17-year-old boy in the leg, police reports say. The 30-year-old man was shot in the right knee.
The car sped off and turned south on East 105th, then east on Grantwood Avenue, according to police.
Police are still searching for the shooter.
A fourth teen was shot around the same time in the city’s Union-Miles neighborhood. The unrelated shooting happened at Glendale Park.
Someone opened fire with a shotgun on a group of teens that had just left a birthday party, according to police.
A 16-year-old boy was shot in the abdomen and finger, police reports say. His finger was partially detached by the gunshot and he went into emergency surgery at University Hospitals, police said.
A witness told police the victim previously got into a fights with other kids in the neighborhood and that at least one of them threatened to shoot the 16-year-old, police reports say.
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