A Pittsburgh man is charged with criminal homicide after a man was found dead inside a car in Sheraden.
Joel Ingram, 41, also faces additional charges for carrying a firearm without a license, according to court documents.
On Wednesday night, police responded to a two-round ShotSpotter alert at Chartiers Avenue and Municipal Street in Sheraden just before 9:15 p.m.
Upon arrival, officers discovered a Nissan Xterra parked on the road that had been struck by gunfire. A male victim, who was in the driver’s seat, was suffering from a single gunshot wound to the head.
Officers rendered aid until medics arrived, but the victim was pronounced dead on the scene just before 9:30 p.m., court documents said.
A witness told police that they and the victim were at the traffic light at the Intersection of Corliss Street and W Carson Street when a man in a dark-colored vehicle began yelling at the victim who was driving their vehicle to “move up.”
Police said the witness told them the victim was confused and the man, later identified as Ingram, continued to yell expletives at their car to get them to move up.
The victim and the male began arguing after the victim told Ingram he wasn’t going to move his car up.
According to the witness Ingram responded saying “yup, yup meet me in the tunnels” and once the light turned green Ingram followed their car through the tunnel and towards the busway, the criminal complaint said.
A second witness said while they were at the traffic light on W Carson Street preparing to turn left into the Corliss Tunnel when they saw the victim’s car at the light as it turned green to yellow and then red without proceeding through, prompting the driver of the car behind to get out of his “older beat-up” dark gray SUV and yell at the victim.
Both cars proceeded onto Corliss Street at a very slow speed, before the second witness said the victim quickly pressed on his brakes with the actor’s car close behind him to “brake-check” him, court document said.
The actor’s car then pulled alongside the victim’s vehicle, and the second witness heard two loud gunshots and observed smoke from a gun coming from the car in front of them.
The first witness, who was in the victim’s vehicle, told police the victim immediately “slumped over” and the shooter drove off.
Police reviewed surveillance footage that showed an inoperable fog light on the driver’s side. After reviewing this footage, police tracked the actor’s vehicle using the city’s Genetec System obtained the vehicle’s license plate.
During the investigation detectives were alerted that the actor’s vehicle hit a License Plate Reader at the intersection of Rt. 65 at the Marshall Avenue ramp.
Police pulled Ingram over at a traffic stop in front of 262 Kennedy Avenue and arrested him, court documents said.
Ingram did not have an attorney listed yet on online court documents Thursday morning.
He awaits a preliminary hearing.