The Youngstown Police Department used its Shotspotter gunfire location technology to alert officers to shootings in two Southside neighborhoods overnight. One of those shootings wounded a homeowner’s pet snake.

Just before 3 a.m. Friday, police found several spent shell casings of two different calibers scattered along East Auburndale Avenue near Erie Street.

A man who said he was awakened by the gunfire showed police where shots had riddled his living room, dining room, kitchen, and bedrooms. Officers reported that glass from broken windows was still falling when they arrived.

The man also told police he would need to take his pet snake to a veterinarian after it was wounded when a bullet struck the tank it was in.

The resident told police he had no idea who would have fired the shots.  However, a neighbor told officers she believed it was the same people who shot a relative at the Speed Check gas station on McGuffey Road earlier that morning.

The woman told officers the shots were fired from two cars.

A couple of hours earlier and a few blocks away on East Philadelphia Avenue, Shotspotter detected 18 rounds being fired just after midnight.

Police found ten shell casings in front of a house, but didn’t find anyone who had been wounded.