Dispatch: 2 hurt after multi-vehicle crash on I-79 in Washington County
AND STAY RIGHT THERE. THE NEWS AT SIX WITH KELLY AND MIKE STARTS RIGHT NOW. ACTION NEWS FOUR. MORE SNOW SHOWERS ON THE WAY TO TOWN. I’LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN IT WILL ARRIVE AND HOW LONG COLD TEMPERATURES WILL STICK AROUND AND WHEN WE’LL FINALLY WARM UP. A MAN KNOWN FOR TAKING PEOPLE INTO HIS HOUSE AS AN ACT OF KINDNESS WAS MURDERED. WE’RE IN. BUTLER. THE FATHER TAKEN BY ICE AGENTS OVER THE WEEKEND. DESPITE HIS FAMILY SAYING HE HAS PROPER DOCUMENTATION. HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER BEGINNING CANCER TREATMENTS. TODAY WE’RE HEARING FROM THE FAMILY. TONIGHT WE’RE CONTINUING THAT INVESTIGATION INTO THAT 18 YEAR OLD PETERS TOWNSHIP SENIOR WHO AUTHORITIES SAY RAN A LARGE SCALE NETWORK TO CATFISH AND SEXUALLY EXTORT HIS VICTIMS. COMING UP, THE NEW INFORMATION WE’VE LEARNED. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR AT SIX STARTS NOW. WE ARE GOING TO START OUT HERE WITH PITTSBURGH’S ACTION, WHETHER IT HAS BEEN ON AND OFF SNOW ALL DAY, AND IT IS NOT OVER. WE HAVE BACK TO BACK SYSTEMS ON THE WAY LATER THIS WEEK. THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US HERE AT SIX. I’M KELLY SASSO I’M MIKE CLARK, OUR CHIEF METEOROLOGIST. MIKE HARVEY IS HERE WITH YOUR CERTIFIED MOST ACCURATE FORECAST. AND THESE COLD TEMPS ARE STICKING AROUND. CERTAINLY ARE. AS WE GO INTO TOMORROW, WE LIKELY WILL NOT MAKE THE FREEZING MARK. WE ONLY HIT 31 DEGREES TODAY FOR OUR HIGH TEMPERATURE. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE A FEW LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS OR FLURRIES THAT ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. THAT WILL CONTINUE AS WE GO THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AND INTO TONIGHT BEFORE IT WRAPS UP. SO A LITTLE BIT OF A LIGHT SNOW. BUTLER COUNTY SEEING A LITTLE BIT MORE SNOW MOVING INTO YOUR DIRECTION, A LITTLE BIT MORE WIDESPREAD. STILL FAIRLY LIGHT IN NATURE. AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE WINTER STORM WARNING. THAT’S FOR THE LAUREL HIGHLANDS AND THESE AREAS. YOU CAN CERTAINLY STILL HAVE ACCUMULATING SNOW THAT WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 1:00 TOMORROW MORNING. AS WE GO THROUGH THE DAY TOMORROW. MOST OF THE DAY IS GOING TO BE DRY, PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY. WE’LL HAVE MORE CLOUDS THAN SUN, CERTAINLY AS WE GO THROUGH THE DAY ON TUESDAY AND THEN WE’LL HAVE SNOW. IT’S NOT GOING TO ARRIVE UNTIL LATE ON TUESDAY. FOR THE MOST PART, THE BULK OF IT WILL ARRIVE EARLY ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, BUT IT’S GOING TO MOVE THROUGH VERY QUICKLY. IT WILL BE LIGHT SNOW MOVING THROUGH VERY QUICK ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. BY THE TIME WE HEAD TOWARDS 8:00 IN THE MORNING, THIS WILL ALREADY BE GONE, BUT WE’LL HAVE SOME SNOW ON THE GROUND AT THAT POINT. WE’RE LOOKING AT 1 TO 2IN OF SNOW IN AND AROUND PITTSBURGH, LAUREL HIGHLANDS AROUND 2 TO 4IN OF SNOW. SO NOT A LOT OF SNOW, BUT DEFINITELY WILL SEE SOME ON THE GROUND WHEN YOU WAKE UP ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, TEMPERATURE WISE FOR TOMORROW. WE’RE LOOKING AT HIGHS. WE’RE GOING TO TOP OUT AROUND 30 TO 35 DEGREES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU MIKE. A 66 YEAR OLD MAN IS DEAD TONIGHT AFTER A MORNING FIRE IN CHARLEROI, WASHINGTON COUNTY. CREWS WERE CALLED HERE TO SMITH STREET AROUND 830. AND FIREFIGHTERS FOUND JORDAN MILLICAN INSIDE. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. THE STATE POLICE FIRE MARSHAL IS NOW INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE. OVERNIGHT, A WOMAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN HER OWN APARTMENT IN WILKINS TOWNSHIP, ALLEGHENY COUNTY. POLICE WERE CALLED TO BRENTMOOR AT PENN CENTER APARTMENTS AT ABOUT 3:00 THIS MORNING, WHERE THEY FOUND HER BODY. COUNTY POLICE ARE TELLING US THIS AFTERNOON EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT IS ACCOUNTED FOR, AND THEY SAY THEIR INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. NEW TONIGHT. POLICE HAVE CAUGHT THE MAN THEY SAY STRUCK A DISABLED VETERAN WITH A BASEBALL BAT AND THEN STABBED HIM TO DEATH. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS 4 REPORTER SHELDON INGRAM IS IN BUTLER TONIGHT WHERE THE VICTIM WAS KNOWN FOR HELPING OTHER VETERANS IN THE COMMUNITY. HEAVY HEARTS RESIDE HERE ON MILLER AVENUE AFTER THE MURDER OF JAMES HOOVER. NEIGHBORS SAY THAT HE WAS KILLED WHILE PERFORMING AN ACT OF KINDNESS. PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE AND BUTLER POLICE SEARCHED THE HOME OF JAMES HOOVER AFTER HE WAS BEATEN AND STABBED. HIS NEIGHBORS WERE STUNNED WHEN THEY LEARNED OF HIS DEATH. I WAS ACTUALLY LEAVING FOR WORK AND I SAW A BUNCH OF POLICE OUTSIDE AND I WAS LIKE, WHAT IS GOING ON? AND THEN I HEARD ABOUT IT AND THAT, LIKE, IT BROKE MY HEART BECAUSE, LIKE, THERE HE DIED RIGHT ACROSS FROM ME TOO. AND HE WAS JUST SO SWEET AND LIKE, IT’S JUST SHOCKING. IT WAS A TOTAL GUT PUNCH TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM AND THAT IT WAS, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY WHO WAS HELPING THAT DID THAT TO HIM. YOU KNOW, JUST HORRIBLE. STATE POLICE SAY HOOVER WAS MURDERED BY 37 YEAR OLD RICHARD SWANN, WHO LIVED WITH HOOVER AS A GUEST. THEY SAY HE FLED TO HIS MOTHER’S HOUSE AT THE CRANBERRY VILLAGE COMMUNITY IN CRANBERRY. FROM THERE, POLICE SAY SWANN WENT TO THE WALMART IN CRANBERRY, WHERE HE CALLED AUTHORITIES TO CONFESS THAT HE WAS THE PERSON WHO KILLED HOOVER. RESIDENTS ON THE STREET SAY HOOVER WAS A DISABLED VETERAN KNOWN TO OPEN HIS HOME TO OTHERS FOR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. THEY ALSO SAY THE MURDER SUSPECT WAS JUST THE LATEST PERSON HOOVER TOOK IN AS AN ACT OF KINDNESS. DID YOU ADMIRE HIM FOR WHAT HE DID? I DID. HE WAS A GREAT GUY. EVERYBODY AROUND TOWN, I’M SURE, HAS SEEN HIM. HE’S. HE’S KIND, AS SWEET AS GOLD. YOU KNOW, HE’S ONE OF THE NICEST GUYS WE MET. SOMEBODY WHO IS HELPING THAT DID THAT TO HIM. YOU KNOW? JUST HORRIBLE. ALSO TONIGHT, STATE POLICE SAY SWANN, THE MURDER SUSPECT, CONFESSED THAT ROBBERY WAS HIS MOTIVE. ALL HE TOOK WAS A CELL PHONE. COVERING BUTLER COUNTY IN BUTLER, SHELDON INGRAM. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. NEW TONIGHT A SECURITY GUARD WHO POLICE SAY SHOT AND KILLED A WOMAN AT A HOOKAH BAR IN PENN HILLS HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY. OUR PARTNERS AT THE TRIB REPORT, CHAZ JACKSON WAS CONVICTED OF VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT. THAT SHOOTING HAPPENED BACK IN 2024 AT BALLER’S HOOKAH LOUNGE AND CIGAR BAR ON LAKETON ROAD. ANOTHER MAN WAS ALSO KILLED, BUT POLICE BELIEVE THAT SHOT WAS FIRED BY SOMEONE ELSE. NO ONE HAS BEEN CHARGED IN THAT CASE. JACKSON WILL BE SENTENCED AT A LATER DATE TONIGHT. CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED IN A VIOLENT ARMED ROBBERY IN PITTSBURGH’S BLOOMFIELD NEIGHBORHOOD. ACCORDING TO A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT, CARL HOUGH AND ANOTHER MAN WALKED IN AND DEMANDED ALL THE MONEY FROM THE SAFE AT SUNNY’S TAVERN WHILE THEY WERE YELLED AT TO LEAVE. HOUGH THEN POINTED A GUN AT THE OWNER, AND ANOTHER SUSPECT STRUCK THE OWNER IN THE HEAD WITH ANOTHER GUN. POLICE SAY THEY TOOK OFF WITH MONEY AND OTHER ITEMS. HOUGH IS NOW BEHIND BARS AT THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL. A SEWICKLEY RESIDENT WAS DETAINED BY IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT OVER THE WEEKEND DESPITE HAVING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION. AND WE’VE LEARNED THAT IT HAPPENED JUST AS HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER WAS STARTING HER CANCER TREATMENT. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER KALEA GUNDERSON SPOKE WITH THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY, GIVING THEIR SUPPORT TO THIS FAMILY. BRUNO GUEDES, DA SILVA’S DAUGHTER, MARIA, IS BEGINNING TREATMENTS FOR HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA JUST TWO DAYS AFTER HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY FEDERAL AGENTS. TONIGHT, HIS FAMILY LEFT WITH MANY QUESTIONS. THIS PHOTO OF SIX-YEAR-OLD MARIA, TAKEN THIS MORNING BEFORE SHE BEGAN CHEMOTHERAPY IN HER SECOND FIGHT AGAINST HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL DOORS. HER FAMILY AND COMMUNITY FIGHTING FOR ANSWERS. AND NOW THIS CRISIS HAS REALLY BEEN TAKEN TO ANOTHER LEVEL WITH THE REMOVAL OF HER FATHER. HADLEY HAASE, SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF BRUNO GUEDES, DA SILVA’S FAMILY, WHO SHE SAYS MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES IN 2022 FLEEING A DANGEROUS SITUATION IN BRAZIL. SHE SAYS IT WAS HERE OUTSIDE OF OSBORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN QUICKLY, WHERE GUEDES DA SILVA WAS PULLED OVER BY FEDERAL AGENTS AND TAKEN INTO CUSTODY OVER THE WEEKEND. CONGRESSMAN CHRIS DELUZIO, PRESSING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOR ANSWERS TONIGHT, SAYING, QUOTE, ACCORDING TO THE FAMILY, BRUNO HAS A VALID WORK AUTHORIZATION, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND LICENSE, AND A LITTLE GIRL UNDERGOING CANCER TREATMENT. ONCE AGAIN, WE NEED ANSWERS TO BASIC QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO REMOVE HIM FROM THE COUNTRY. THERE SEEMS TO BE NO REASON. THERE SEEMS TO BE NO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND. HE HAS ALL OF THE LEGAL PAPERWORK THE FAMILY DOES. AND WHAT’S WORSE IS THE FAMILY WAS PULLED OVER IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL THAT THE LITTLE GIRL GOES TO. THAT’S VERY TRAUMATIZING. JUST TO GET PULLED OVER IN GENERAL BY A POLICE OFFICER. BUT THEN YOUR PARENTS GET TAKEN OUT OF THE CAR. SO THAT’S A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT STARTED A GOFUNDME TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY THROUGH THE ABSENCE OF MR. GUEDES DA SILVA AND THROUGH ANY LEGAL COSTS THEY MIGHT FACE, ADDING TO THE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR UPCOMING CANCER TREATMENT. MARIA WAS JUST THANKING HER COMMUNITY FOR LAST WEEK HAYS EXPRESSING HER HOPE FOR THE FAMILY. I HOPE WE CAN GET HIM RELEASED AT HOME, TO HIS FAMILY AND BEING ABLE TO SIT BY HIS DAUGHTER’S BEDSIDE, YOU KNOW, AS SHE GOES THROUGH THIS TERRIBLE TIME. I HOPE HIS WIFE CAN HAVE HER HUSBAND WITH HER TO SUPPORT HER. ACCORDING TO THE WEBSITE, GUEDES DA SILVA IS IN THE NORTHERN REGIONAL JAIL IN MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA. WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO ICE WITH SEVERAL QUESTIONS COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY TONIGHT IN LAWRENCEVILLE KALEA GUNDERSON. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. HALEY. THANK YOU. NEW TONIGHT AT SIX, A MAN IS ACCUSED OF A CARJACKING CASE AND A POLICE CHASE IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY. ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT, STATE POLICE WERE CALLED TO A DONEGAL TOWNSHIP DOLLAR GENERAL STORE FOR AN ATTEMPTED ROBBERY, WHERE THE VICTIM TOLD TROOPERS A MAN GRABBED HER PURSE. SHE CHASED HIM AND THE TWO WRESTLED OVER IT UNTIL SHE WAS PUSHED TO THE GROUND. POLICE SAY HE RAN OFF WITHOUT THE PURSE. THEY SAY ANOTHER WOMAN REPORTED THAT SAME MAN IDENTIFIED TONIGHT AS MICHAEL LANG PUSHED HER OUT OF HER SUV AFTER HE REQUESTED A RIDE DOWN THE STREET AND STOLE HER CAR. POLICE LOCATED THE SUV IN YOUNGWOOD THANKS TO THE ONSTAR SYSTEM IN THE CAR. AFTER A SHORT CHASE, OFFICERS TOOK LANG INTO CUSTODY. NOW TO A FOLLOW UP ABOUT THE PETERS TOWNSHIP STUDENT ACCUSED OF ORGANIZING A CATFISHING AND SEXTORTION SCHEME INVOLVING OVER 20 VICTIMS. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER YASMIN RODRIGUEZ IS IN WASHINGTON TONIGHT WITH THE FBI’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE CASE AND THE 300 FELONIES HE’S NOW FACING. THE FBI TELLS ME THAT THEY ARE INVOLVED WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INTO THIS INVESTIGATION INTO ZACHARIAH MYERS. THEY ALSO TELL ME, BECAUSE THEY ARE INVOLVED, THE CONSEQUENCES FOR HIM COULD BECOME WORSE. THE CONSEQUENCES ARE EXTREMELY HARSH WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GETS INVOLVED. IT WAS ON FRIDAY THAT PETERS TOWNSHIP SENIOR, ZACHARIAH MYERS, WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AFTER POLICE EXECUTED A SEARCH WARRANT ON HIS HOUSE. THE INVESTIGATION BEGAN BACK IN DECEMBER AFTER AUTHORITIES UNCOVERED WHAT THEY CALL A LARGE SCALE CRIMINAL NETWORK INVOLVING CATFISHING AND SEXTORTION. ACCORDING TO POLICE, MYERS USED VARIOUS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO LURE HIS OVER 20 JUVENILE VICTIMS INTO SENDING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT PHOTOS AND VIDEOS. AUTHORITIES SAY HE DID SO BY POSING AS FICTITIOUS PEOPLE, ALL WHO WERE NOT INVOLVED. IN ONE INSTANCE, A VIDEO WAS RECORDED INSIDE THE SCHOOL GYM LOCKER ROOM. THE PETERS TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT SAYS THEY BECAME AWARE OF THE SITUATION AND ARE COOPERATING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT INTO THE INVESTIGATION, BUT THAT THERE IS NO SAFETY THREAT TO STUDENTS. FBI AGENT CHRISTOPHER GIORDANO CALLS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VICTIMS AND THE SUSPECT HOME GROWN, MEANING KNOWN LOCALLY, AND EXPLAINS WHY THESE CASES ARE OFTEN WORSE. THEY HAVE THAT ABILITY, AND THEN THEY USE THAT TO THEIR ADVANTAGE BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT THEY CAN DO A COUPLE KEYSTROKES AND THEN WHATEVER THAT PERSON SENT IS NOW NATIONAL NEWS BECAUSE IT’S ALL OVER THE SCHOOL. NOW, A PRELIMINARY HEARING IS SET FOR FRIDAY MORNING. HE’S CURRENTLY HERE BEHIND ME AFTER BAIL WAS DENIED LAST WEEK. COVERING WASHINGTON COUNTY OUTSIDE THE WASHINGTON COUNTY JAIL, YASMIN RODRIGUEZ, PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. THANK YOU. YASMIN IN GREENE COUNTY OVER THE WEEKEND, A SEVEN YEAR OLD BOY WAS HIT AND KILLED BY A CAR. POLICE SAY THE DRIVER WAS 92 YEARS OLD. THIS HAPPENED ON SATURDAY ON ROUTE 88, IN MONONGAHELA TOWNSHIP. THE DRIVER WAS NOT HURT. WE DON’T KNOW YET IF THAT PERSON WILL BE FACING ANY CHARGES. THE VICTIM WAS WILSON TORELLA, THE GREENSBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND A RESIDENT ARE PUTTING TOGETHER AN AUCTION TO SUPPORT WILSON’S FAMILY. IT WILL BEGIN AT THEIR FISH FRY THIS FRIDAY. AND NEW TONIGHT, ATTORNEY GENERAL DAVIDSON SAYS DRUG AGENTS HAD A RECORD MONTH FOR SEIZED GUNS IN OUR REGION. THE AG’S AGENTS, ASSISTED BY FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, SEIZED 41 GUNS IN OUR REGION LAST MONTH. DURING THE COURSE OF DRUG TRAFFICKING INVESTIGATIONS IN THOSE INVESTIGATIONS, NINE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED SO FAR. AGENTS ALSO SEIZED POUNDS OF COCAINE, THOUSANDS OF DOSES OF FENTANYL, ALONG WITH HEROIN AND MARIJUANA. THE AG SAYS MOST OF THE GUNS WERE SEIZED OUTSIDE OF
Dispatch: 2 hurt after multi-vehicle crash on I-79 in Washington County
Updated: 9:52 PM EST Feb 23, 2026
Two people were taken to the hospital following a multi-vehicle crash on I-79 in Washington County Monday night. VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 PennDOT’s website, 511, said as of 7:30 p.m., a lane restriction remains on I-79 in the southbound direction near Exit 45 towards Canonsburg following reports of a multi-vehicle crash. Officials also issued a restriction on the northbound side near Exit 48 near Southpointe/Hendersonville. Cameras in the area appeared to show a backup of traffic as multiple responders arrived at the scene. Dispatchers said two people were injured and taken to a local hospital for treatment.It is unclear how many vehicles were involved. 511 says all lanes are anticipated to reopen around 9 p.m. This is a developing story. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. —
Two people were taken to the hospital following a multi-vehicle crash on I-79 in Washington County Monday night.
VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4
PennDOT’s website, 511, said as of 7:30 p.m., a lane restriction remains on I-79 in the southbound direction near Exit 45 towards Canonsburg following reports of a multi-vehicle crash.
Officials also issued a restriction on the northbound side near Exit 48 near Southpointe/Hendersonville.
Cameras in the area appeared to show a backup of traffic as multiple responders arrived at the scene.
Dispatchers said two people were injured and taken to a local hospital for treatment.
It is unclear how many vehicles were involved.
511 says all lanes are anticipated to reopen around 9 p.m.
This is a developing story.
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