Warren, Ohio

From the Warren Tribune-Chronicle of April 14, 2007

Shootout leads to car accident

A Warren man exchanged gunfire early Tuesday morning with someone who then tried to steal the man’s car, a police report shows.

Martin Bonish, 55, 1625 Youngstown Road S.E. told police a man walking by his home as he was pulling into the drive about 12:45 a.m. opened fire after a brief conversation between the two.

Bonish, licensed to carry a concealed weapon, returned fire, which is when the man jumped in Bonish’s still-running car and tried driving away, according to the report.

But the man, who was trying to back out of the drive, hit a street sign and then accelerated forward across the street, through a fence and into a junk vehicle in a nearby parking lot, the report states.

The man hopped a fence and got into a car that drove up to the crash, the report states.