Sharon police Wednesday found the gun used in a Sunday shooting police called “gang-related.”

Three men have been charged in connection with several shots fired about 9 p.m. Sunday in the 500 block of Baldwin Avenue at Plum Street. The intersection is next to C.M. Musser Elementary playground.

No one was injured and police said they found no evidence of houses or cars being hit by bullets.

Sharon police Chief Mike Menster said they recovered the handgun at 6:50 p.m. under a bucket in the back yard of a home in the 700 block of Baldwin.

The gun, a 9-mm semi-automatic pistol, was the one a Hermitage man reported was stolen from him after he went to Mesabi Street about 10 p.m. July 18 to try and sell it, police said.

The 22-year-old told police that one of the men he’d shown the gun to “jumped” him and took it without paying. Police said the investigation is ongoing, but as of Thursday, no charges had been filed against the would-be gun seller.

In the days since the shooting, police said an empty building at Budd Street and New Castle Avenue was spray-painted red with “It ain’t over” and obscenities addressing the street gang police said some of the teens who were shot at belong to.

No other problems related to the gang rivalry have been reported in the city, Menster said.

Menster said the police department’s position is to not name the gangs because it gives them recognition.

“We don’t want to glamorize this type of behavior,” Menster said.

The night of the shooting, police arrested Jacquaze Q. “Chaos” Jones, 19, of Middletown, Ohio, for allegedly firing the gun and Samuel D. “Cheezy” Phillips Jr., 19, of Warren, Ohio, as a conspirator.

On Tuesday, Toney A. Bonner, 19, of 677 Baldwin Ave., Sharon, turned himself in to police.

Jones is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, police said. Bonner and Phillips are charged with aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, police said.

The men are scheduled for preliminary hearings Aug. 12 before District Judge James E. McMahon, Sharon.