Staff photo / Ed Runyan SWAT team members and others react to citizens yelling Wednesday afternoon as a suspect was handcuffed and placed in a cruiser after he walked out of a Cambridge Avenue house on Youngstown’s South Side in a short standoff with law enforcement.

YOUNGSTOWN — The man who came out peacefully Wednesday afternoon on Cambridge Avenue on the South Side got angry with his girlfriend and fired a shot in her direction inside the house before the woman fled and called police, according to a city police report.

The man, 39, is in the Mahoning County jail, according to jail records. Jail records indicate he is charged with felonious assault and two counts of domestic violence, but he had no new court case on the Youngstown Municipal Court website as of Thursday evening.

Starting at 12:55 p.m and ending about 2:25 p.m., the episode took about 90 minutes to resolve. The Youngstown Police Department sent numerous officers to Cambridge Avenue, closing off the street at South Avenue and Gibson Street while they tried to talk to the man.

The report states that the man has been staying with the woman for more than three years, but on Wednesday the woman was upset that the man did not “contribute to her household and called him a freeloader,” according to the report.

The man got angry and screamed at the woman. He pulled out a gun and pointed it at her while she was sitting on the couch in the living room, the report states. He threatened to shoot up the house and “put one in your head,” the report states.

The man then fired in the direction of the woman, and they screamed at each other while the woman called 911, the report states. She ran to her car and fled.

When an officer met with the woman, she told the officer she had a surveillance camera inside the home. She pulled up the camera, which had audio, on her phone and showed the officer the man threatening her and shooting at her, the report states. The woman apparently was not injured.

The 911 dispatcher could hear a man threatening to shoot up the house and shoot her, the report notes. The video showed the man entering the basement at the time the officers arrived at the home, indicating that the man had not left.

The report states the officers arriving on Cambridge Avenue were told the man was armed and inside the house. A Youngstown officer gave commands to the man over a loudspeaker and asked the man to exit the home, but he did not. Officers learned that the man disabled the surveillance cameras, the report states.

Family members indicated that the man was communicating with them. A sergeant requested that the SWAT team come to the scene, and some Youngstown SWAT officers arrived.

After several tries, family members convinced the man to come out, and he walked out the front door and walked down the driveway, where officers took him into custody, the report states.

HUDSON AVENUE

In a separate South Side incident, a man, 22, was taken into custody Wednesday night and taken to jail in a 5:59 p.m. shooting Wednesday on Hudson Avenue. He also had no new charges on file yet Thursday evening in Youngstown Municipal Court.

A report states that when officers arrived, they found the male victim sitting on the front porch steps. He was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, a report states. The crime lab and detectives arrived to carry out an investigation.

The victim said the suspect shot him and advised that the suspect lived down the street, and the suspect was seen running in that direction, the report states. Officers went to the home, but the suspect was not there.

However, officers learned where to look for him. They spotted him on Mistletoe Avenue at Glenwood Avenue and took him into custody.

He was taken to the Youngstown police station to be interviewed by detectives and then was taken to jail.