Victim in shooting was source of earlier dispute

LIMA - A 20-year-old Lima man was injured Tuesday afternoon in a shooting that followed a dispute involving four Lima women, including family members of a woman who was shot to death by a police sergeant earlier this year during a drug raid.

Lt. Chip Protsman, of the Lima Police Department, said Erion Tyson, 20, of Lima, was eastbound in the 600 block of Catalpa Avenue in a Chevy Tahoe when, at about 4:35 p.m., someone opened fire on him and his passenger, Reginald Parks, 27, of Lima. Tyson was hit in the upper right chest. Parks escaped injury.

Tyson was taken to Lima Memorial Health System, where information on his condition was unavailable. Police weren't provided any information about the shooter.

However, both Tyson and Parks were listed in a report stemming from a dispute at 136 E. Kibby St. involving four Lima women nearly an hour before the shooting.

That dispute involved Tanea Wilson, 24; Sherita Thomas, 28; Unique Parks, 21; and Ebony Garner, 27.

Wilson and Thomas are sisters of Tarika Wilson, who was shot and killed by Sgt. Joe Chavalia during a Jan. 4 drug raid at her home. Chavalia was found not guilty Monday on misdemeanor counts of negligent homicide and negligent assault.

The report of the dispute indicated Parks and Tyson were the cause of the dispute, although they were not present at the time.