SHOTS FIRED OUTSIDE OF MARDI GRAS

Elyria – Three Elyria Police Officers were parked on Depot Street facing Washington Ave around 2:45 a.m. Friday morning monitoring a large number of patrons leaving the Mardi Gras bar when they heard several gunshots ring out about 50 yards away.


Officers took cover and began retrieving their special weapons from their cars while calling over the radio, “shots fired on Depot, multiple shots fired.”


Officers saw smoke coming from the area of a Ford Explorer parked on Depot Street on the railroad side of the street. Officers detained about 10 men that were near the SUV. The men were all searched, cleared and released.


Three women were then removed from the Explorer; one told Officers she had a CCW permit and that the gun was in the glove box and unloaded. Officers found a .380 black colored handgun without a magazine in the glove box. The gun did have one live round in the chamber. A magazine was found under the driver’s seat.


Each of the women removed from the vehicle denied firing the gun.


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