Police respond to report of shots fired
Butler police found five spent shell casings outside a city home after responding to a reported weekend shooting.
No one apparently was injured and no suspects or victims have been identified, Butler Deputy Police Chief David Adam said today. A motive also is not known.
A call for shots fired about 1:15 a.m. Saturday sent officers to Third Avenue and Pillow Street near My Buddy’s Place bar, police said.
Officers spoke to a teenager who was at a home nearby and was an eye-and earwitness to the shooting.She told police that before the gunfire she heard yelling and looked outside.
In front of a home in the 100 block of Third Avenue, she saw a black male that she described as “thin and tall,” Adam said.
The unknown suspect was standing at the passenger side of a sport utility vehicle.
Moments later, the witness spotted a thin black female walk from the area of the bar to the SUV. The unknown female yelled something to the suspect.
“The black male yelled back, ‘Don’t (expletive) mess with me,” Adam said, recounting what the teenage told police.
The girl said she saw the suspect reach into the SUV and retrieve something from under the passenger seat.
“He pulls out a handgun with his right hand and pointed it in the air and fired five or six shots,” Adam said of the suspect.
The teen told officers that once she heard and saw the shooting, she ran away and didn’t see anything else. Police later spoke to two other earwitnesses who reported hearing the gunshots.
Adam said the recovered casings were from a “larger caliber” pistol but he declined to elaborate.
He said that police are reviewing surveillance video captured nearby as part of their investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 724-287-7743, or 911.
