Man who allegedly shot person over a bag of potato chips arrested Wednesday in Akron

This story has been updated.

Akron police arrested a man in a nonfatal shooting that left a 31-year-old man hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the face after he declined to share a bag of potato chips, according to an Akron Police Department news release.

Soon after the Tuesday night shooting on the 40 block of Stanton Avenue, investigators identified a 42-year-old as a person of interest. The next day at about 6:30 p.m., officers spotted the man boarding a bus at the Metro Transit on South Broadway Street.

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With help from a Regional Transit Authority officer, police stopped the bus at South Broadway Street and East Thornton Street and took the man into custody. He was found in possession of a firearm, which may have been used in the shooting.

Officers charged him with felonious assault and weapons under disability.

Shot over a bag of chips

Police responded to Summa Health Akron City Hospital around 9 p.m. Tuesday for a man who transported himself there.

The 31-year-old man told police that he was confronted by an unknown man outside Lusty's Adventure on the 40 block of Stanton Avenue who asked him for some of his potato chips. After denying that request, the man told police the suspect produced a large handgun and shot him before fleeing the scene in an unknown vehicle.

This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Stanton Ave Akron Ohio: Man arrested in shooting over bag of chips