Courtney Day

Reporter

MANSFIELD - A woman was shot in the leg at Park Avenue Drive Thru early Friday morning during an incident at the business.

Trista M. Schneurer, 31, 183 N. Main St., Bellville, was one of two people who reportedly arrived at the business around 2:20 a.m., when one of the two people entered the business without permission to be there, according to Mansfield police Chief Ken Coontz.

Because of recent burglaries at the 295 Park Avenue West convenience store, Coontz said, the business owner had asked two people to guard the business overnight. Those two people were in the building at the time. An altercation followed the intrusion, and one of the two people guarding the building shot Schneurer.

After Schneurer was shot, she began to run, Coontz said. A 48-year-old male witness told police he saw Schneurer lying on the ground with a gunshot wound and drove her to the hospital, according to the police report. The injuries were not life-threatening.

Zacary Charles Chalut, 26, who lives at the same address as Schneurer, was arrested on a charge of complicity.

Police reported seizing a wallet and a crack pipe from Schneurer.

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