2nd shooting at home in 2 days
City police are investigating after a man was shot twice at a home on Fayette Street Friday night.
The shooting occurred shortly after 9:30 p.m. at 630 Fayette St., the same house where 22-year-old Malik El-Hajj Turner of Houston had been shot in the hand Thursday.
According to Washington police Cpl. Steve Devenney, the unidentified man was sitting on the front porch when police and emergency personnel arrived.
He was taken by ambulance to Washington Hospital and flown by emergency helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital. His condition was not known.
Devenney said police are interested in a blue sedan with out-of-state license plates that left the area following the shooting.
A gunshot was also fired into a home a few houses from 630 Fayette St.
David and Diane Rush were sitting on their porch minutes before the shooting and had taken their chairs inside when they heard gunshots.
Diane Rush said she opened her door slightly, then closed it when she saw neighbors running across the road.
A bullet lodged in the yellow siding of their two-story home.
“We had just gotten up and gone inside. Where that bullet is, that’s where we were sitting,” said Diane Rush, who has lived in the home for 30 years. “I was kind of shook up a bit. I was shocked, but not really shocked because it’s bad around here. It hasn’t always been this way. Just over the past few years, it’s gotten bad.”
Said David Rush, “They call it the ‘Worst End,’ not the West End anymore.”
Diane Rush said she did not realize a shot had been fired into the house until police notified her.
Police are asking anyone with information regarding the shooting or the vehicle to call 911 or city police at 724-223-4226.