Following a steady increase since 2015, homicide rates last year dropped to zero in Fayette County for the first time in at least a decade."There was not one homicide at all, all year," said Fayette County District Attorney Rich Bower.Homicide rates spiked from 2015 to 2018 after averaging two ...
A Fayette County judge will determine whether a jury will hear evidence of alleged abuse during a homicide trial for a woman accused of stabbing a man in front of their three young children last Christmas.Defense attorneys claim Dominique Erniece Jones, 28, of Uniontown stabbed 25-year-old Tre ...
Melvin Gray said he rushed next door last month after hearing his sister screaming for him, claiming her boyfriend had assaulted her with either his fist or a water glass.Gray also said he went inside the trailer on Dolly Lane in Union Township, called the boyfriend, Brian E. Lyon II, to a ...
A man accused of homicide in West Virginia and attempted homicide in Washington County also allegedly committed an armed robbery in South Union Township, Fayette County, in the midst of a weeklong crime spree.Brian Edward Lyon II of Vine Street in Monongahela was identified through surveillance ...
The U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force arrested a man in Monroeville who was wanted in the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man in Vanderbilt Sept. 17.Omari Sei-Tu Parker Jr., 18, of New Kensington was arrested without incident last week at a hotel in the 3900 block of ...
The Uniontown man who was wanted in the death of an 11-month-old girl in East Huntingdon Township was arrested Monday night in Ohio.Derrick Anthony "Hector" Bass was arrested without incident by the Western PA Fugitive Task Force and Ohio law enforcement in Cleveland, according to state police ...
