Aug 18, 2017 2 min read

Two Monessen residents injured in a November 2015 shooting outside a California home were charged Wednesday by borough police with two counts each of possession and possession with intent to deliver heroin after the drug allegedly was found in the vehicle where they had been sitting when they were shot.

Aaron L. Davis, 47, and Tekeila Stephens, 36, both of 1023 Rostraver St., also were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Davis and Stephens were sitting in her vehicle outside a home on Highland Avenue Nov. 17, 2015, when they were shot by David McClain Mounts of California. Davis had been on the phone with Mounts’ brother just before the shooting. Davis had parked the vehicle in a pull-off next to the Mounts home when the shots were fired from a .22-caliber rifle.

Stephens was shot in the face and was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital. Davis was grazed by a bullet. Mounts fled and was taken into custody after a three-hour manhunt. The 22-year-old Mounts was sentenced in May to 9 to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of attempted homicide. Charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment were withdrawn. He is currently incarcerated at the State Correctional Institute at Camp Hill.

Police obtained a search warrant for Stephens’ Mercury Marquis the day after the shooting. When a member of the state police forensic services unit was processing the car, he reportedly found what appeared to be stamp bags of heroin on the floor. Police said they found five bundles containing a total of 50 stamp bags, along with a cellphone, an unmarked pill bottle containing what was believed to be Vicodin and a Taser. The drugs were taken earlier this year to the state police laboratory in Greensburg for analysis, and the heroin was positively identified, police said.

A preliminary hearing will be scheduled before District Judge Joshua Kanalis.