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Advertisement -  « News Home  Youngstown girl shot as car driver
tries to pass a crowd  Published: Wed, December 30, 2009 @ 10:30
p.m.  YOUNGSTOWN — City police said an 11-year-old East Avondale
Avenue girl was shot when a motorist fired a gun at a crowd of
people gathered in the 200 block of East Avondale.  Treiash
Franklin suffered a grazing wound to the chest, police said.
Witnesses told police that a crowd of people had gathered in the
street at 5:13 p.m. Wednesday following a disturbance. A man
driving an older model gray, two-door Cadillac came down the
street and wanted to pass the crowd.  People refused to get out
of the street and the man opened fire, shooting into the crowd,
witnesses told police.  The girl was taken to St. Elizabeth
Health Center for treatment where hospital personnel found the
bullet in her clothing, police said.  No one else was injured,
and the gunman fled the scen