ELYRIA — Two teen males were shot in or near the Toy Box Nightclub in downtown Elyria overnight, according to Elyria police.

Officers were called to the Toy Box, 581 Broad St., a little after 2 a.m. for a report of shots fired and “people running everywhere.”

According to Elyria police Capt. Dan Jaykel, two people were shot, both in their legs.

Robert Beane, 19, of Lorain, was taken to EMH Regional Medical Center, where he was treated and released, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

Marlon Capers, 17, was grazed by a bullet and was taken to Community Health Partners in Lorain, Jaykel said. His condition was not immediately available.

According to a police report, an officer was in the area of Sports Bar and Toy Box on Broad Street and heard “numerous gunshots being rapidly fired from the area.”

The “officer observed large amounts of unknown subjects running from the area in several directions,” the report said.

Also according to the report, “There were numerous vehicles fleeing the area at high rates of speed in several directions.”

Police stopped a red pickup truck that was taking Beane to the hospital. The vehicle, driven by Kereem Tucker, 24, of Lorain, was found to contain crack cocaine, Jaykel said. He also said another passenger, Matthew Bell, 24, of Elyria, was arrested on a weapons charge after a handgun fell from his pants. Jaykel said it wasn’t clear whether these individuals were involved in the shooting.

Officers also arrested Marquise Hollis on a warrant out of the Sandusky Police Department.

According to the report, officers pounded on the door to the Toy Box for several minutes before being allowed into the locked door and found the staff had swept and washed the floor and cleaned the bathroom down. The staff claimed to have no knowledge of the shooting.

Hollis was taken to the Elyria City Jail to be picked up by Sandusky.

Check back at Chroniclet.com for more on this story as it becomes available.

ELYRIA — A man was likely destined for the “stupid criminals” list when he stole from a man he knew in broad daylight. He may get off scott free, though, because the victim didn’t cooperate with police, and the case is considered closed, according to a police report.

Police were called to A-1 Rebuildable Auto Salvage Yard on Infirmary Road about 1:40 yesterday afternoon. The business owner, Steve Hohman, told officers a man he knows by his first name because he helps around the scrap yard had come in about noon and asked about a rear strut arm for a Honda Accord.

Hohman told him the part was $35, and the man told him he didn’t have any money and left.

About 1 p.m., a white compact car with a black hood and fenders pulled up, and the same man got out. A witness watched him jump the fence. After a few minutes he jumped the fence back out of the scrap yard with the part in his hand and road off, the report said.

Hohman and the witness directed officers to a Melvyn Lane home where the car was parked next to a green Honda Accord that was jacked up in the driveway.

The first man and a second man working on the car who also said he works for Hohman at the scrap yard insisted they had paid for the part.

Officers told the man to return the part, and they objected, saying “It’s already installed on the car,” the report said.

The second man offered to pay for the part, but Hohman told him he wanted the part back.

The first man disappeared after going to retrieve the part, so police asked Hohman to come to the station after work to sign charges. According to the report, he did not, so the case is closed due to lack of cooperation from the victim.

SHEFFIELD LAKE — Sheffield Lake police are hoping security camera photos from the Wal-Mart at Chestnut Commons in Elyria can help them identify individuals who stole a purse from a car at a city park.

According to Capt. Tony Campo, the purse was taken Monday from a car at Lakewood Beach park.

A man and a woman used credit cards taken in the theft to purchase $209 worth of merchandise that night at Wal-Mart, he said. Among the items purchased were beverages, a booster seat, diapers and clothing and undergarments.

Security cameras caught the man, woman and two children — an infant in a carrier and a toddler — at the register and exiting the store.

Anyone with information on the couple’s identity is asked to call Sheffield Lake police at 949-7131.

ELYRIA — An air-conditioning unit in a third-floor bedroom started a fire that caused about $10,000 in damage to a Furnace Street home this morning.

Firefighters responded to the fire, at 519 Furnace, a little before 10:30 a.m. They were on the scene about an hour.

Everyone got out of the home OK and stood on the sidewalk to watch as firefighters battled light smoke that came from the rear of the home.

Sareesce Groves and his family of 10 will be put up by the American Red Cross. The home isn’t inhabitable right now because the electrical meter was pulled, according to Assistant Fire Chief Tim Mitchell.

Groves said he believed the fire was contained to one bedroom. He didn’t know the extent of smoke and water damage.

Furnace Street was blocked while firefighters extinguish the fire.

Mitchell said air conditioners causing fires is not common.

“It might have been the age of it, or it might have overheated,” he said.