YOUNGSTOWN — Tony A. Dabney Jr., 20, of Fairmont Avenue in Youngstown, was indicted Thursday on two counts of felonious assault, each with a gun specification.

He’s also incicted on discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises with a gun specification, tampering with evidence, two counts of domestic violence and one count of child endangering.

The charges resulted from an April 17 incident at an apartment in the 100 block of Shields Road in Boardman in which Dabney is accused of firing a gun at the car of his girlfriend while a child was inside.

Police found a bullet shell casing in the street and collected it for evidence. They also later found a firearm in the apartment where Dabney had been trying to go. The bullets in the gun are consistent with the shell casing police found in the street, a Boardman police report states.

The alleged victim said she took Dabney to the apartment on Shields that afternoon to get some shoes. When she got there, she realized it was the apartment of Dabney’s ex-girlfriend. The woman said she became upset and tried to leave without Dabney, but Dabney hit the front driver’s side car window with a silver handgun.

The woman put the car in reverse and started to drive away, but Dabney walked into the road and fired into the rear driver side door of her vehicle, the report states. She continued driving and left the area, she said. No one was injured. She discovered later that the car had been shot.

A witness told police he or she saw Dabney fire the gun into the street and then walk toward an apartment.

Boardman police were informed that Dabney went to the Mahoning County jail July 18. He was then booked on the felonious assault and other charges filed against him in Mahoning County Area Court in Boardman April 19.

The charges were bound over to the grand jury during a preliminary hearing Aug. 9.

Also indicted was Christopher J. Pratt, 28, of Willis Avenue in Youngstown, on charges of felonious assault and aggravated menacing.

The charges stem from an incident Aug. 18 at a a short-term residential care home in the first block of Willis Avenue on the South Side.

Police were called to the home for a fight with a weapon and spoke with the alleged victim. He said Pratt was upset with him because of an incident earlier in the day involving a dog. He said Pratt tried to give away a stray dog.

But the alleged victim told the dog’s owner where he could find the pet and said Pratt had the animal, he told police. The alleged victim returned to the home on Willis after the owner got the dog back, and Pratt was on the front porch. Pratt approached the alleged victim while holding a knife and tried to stab him, the alleged victim told police.

But he used a wooden chair as a shield to hold off Pratt, causing Pratt to throw the knife into the yard.

When officers spoke to Pratt, he said he had a mental breakdown. The housing director of the facility pulled up a video of the incident. It substantiated the other man’s account of the episode, police said.

Others indicted Thursday by a Mahoning County grand jury are:

Anthony A. Harris, 28, Mahoning County jail, domestic violence;

Marvin W. Harsch, 33, Mahoning County jail, fentanyl related compound possession and drug possession;

Terry’onne J. Rushton, 18, Ferndale Avenue, having weapons while not allowed, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle, contributing to the delinquency of a child and obstructing official business;

Karlibeth N. Snyder, 33, Mahoning County jail, aggravated drug possession, cocaine possession, fentanyl related compound possession, theft, vandalism and falsification;

Jayden T. Jenkins, 21, Mahoning County jail, tampering with evidence, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle, obstructing official business with a gun specification and contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a child;

Antonio D. Flores, 19, Glenwood Avenue, failure to comply with the order of a police officer, obstructing official business with a gun specification, obstructing justice and contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a child;

Dwayne A. Moody Jr., 32, Overland Avenue, tampering with evidence, heroin possession, aggravated drug possession and drug possession;

Michael A. Anderson, 27, Mathews Road, fentanyl related compound possession;

Fabian Acevedo-Ramos, 31, Tremble Avenue, Campbell, cocaine possession;

Brock J. Bailey Jr., 24, Mahoning County jail, grand theft when the property is a firearm and having weapons while not allowed;

Jeffrey S. Hetherington, 25, Mahoning County jail, failure to comply with the order of a police officer;

Tito Riley, 45, South Avenue, having weapons while not allowed and violating a protection order.

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