‘I’ll smoke you, security guard.’ Shout precedes gunfire at McKeesport housing complex
McKeesport PA Dec 10 2017 A 17-year-old Duquesne boy and a 26-year-old McKeesport man were arrested late Thursday night on charges of firing shots at a security officer in an apartment complex in McKeesport.
Dailan Smith, 26, and Jahi Rox, 17, both face attempted homicide, assault and firearms charges, according to court records.
The security officer, identified in a criminal complaint as Ronald Fialkovich, said he was standing in a parking lot in the Hi View Gardens apartment complex in the 700 block of Sixth Street when a vehicle drove by.
Someone inside the vehicle shouted, “I’ll smoke you, security guard,” Mr. Fialkovich told McKeesport police, and then fired six shots in his direction.
Mr. Fialkovich was not wounded.
McKeesport police saw a vehicle that matched the vehicle Mr. Fialkovich described over the radio as it drove away from the apartment complex, according to court records.
A McKeesport detective tried to pull the vehicle over and a pursuit ensued, according to a criminal complaint. The driver eventually crashed into a storm drain at the corner of Walnut Street and 25th Street, a criminal complaint said, at which point the two people inside the car — identified as Smith and Mr. Rox — surrendered.
McKeesport police found a .45 caliber handgun, still hot, under the driver’s seat and partially in view, according to a complaint.
The firearm had been stolen from Pittsburgh, according to a complaint.
Smith and Mr. Rox are scheduled to appear for preliminary hearings in City Court, Downtown, on Dec. 20.
Both are in custody in the Allegheny County Jail after they were unable to make bond.
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