PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio — Parma Heights Police are investigating a shooting that occurred on Pearl Road Thursday night.
Around 11 p.m., there was an incident involving multiple people in the parking lot of the Twin Lakes office building.
Parma Heights Police confirmed one person was shot, and another was struck by a vehicle, police said.
Both were transported to MetroHealth, and one was released Friday morning, police said. The other was still receiving treatment Friday morning.
A neighbor said someone was doing donuts in a parking lot when a person was hit by the car and got pinned underneath.
He said after that person got hit, people began shooting at the car and the driver.
News 5's overnight photographer saw dozens of shell casings on the ground and bullet holes all over a car.
Working to confirm information but neighbors say a group of people were doing donuts in cars in this Parma Hts parking lot when someone got hit and trapped under the silver car. After that person was run over multiple shots were fired into the silver car. Police processing. pic.twitter.com/1r77z7nTCf
— Mike Vielhaber (@MVielhaber) February 9, 2024
Several homes were hit by gunfire in the exchange, including one house a couple of hundred yards away from the Twin Lakes parking lot.
“If it had been up a few more inches, it would’ve gone through the window,” said James Gilronan.
He explained the bullet hit just below the bedroom window where his wife was sleeping.
“She heard the shots and then she heard like a bang on the side of the house,” he said. “I was laying there in bed and I’d just turned the TV on and then I heard the ‘boom, boom, boom.’ And I’m thinking, ‘That’s not fireworks.’”
Gilronan said he looked outside and saw a group of young people scattering through the neighborhood.
“They started coming up Wesley Drive and then they turned back and went the other way down Pearl, a couple of them went up by the restaurant,” he recalled.
He said he's grateful for his family's safety.
“I’m just glad nothing happened and no one got hurt,” Gilronan said.
Police have not released details about arrests, potential suspects or the extent of injuries. The Parma Heights Detective Bureau plans to investigate the incident through the weekend actively.
