{"id":113150,"date":"2026-02-13T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113150\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:35:07","slug":"suspect-wanted-in-deadly-fayette-county-shooting-taken-into-custody-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113150\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect wanted in deadly Fayette County shooting taken into custody in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect wanted in a deadly shooting in Uniontown last week has been taken into custody, according to the Fayette County District Attorney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 20-year-old, identified as Lemaur Thompson Jr., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/uniontown-deadly-shooting-dunlap-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was shot on Dunlap Street last Thursday in Uniontown<\/a>. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the shooting, Fayette County District Attorney Mike Aubele said that 18-year-old Braedon Dickinson was named a person of interest, saying the shooting was not random, but &#8220;an intentional, deliberate act.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a full extradition warrant, so we&#8217;re looking nationwide for him,&#8221; Aubele said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/633059990-932735989430975-2866466364889323258-n.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"633059990-932735989430975-2866466364889323258-n.jpg \" height=\"828\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Braedon Dickinson, 18, has been charged with homicide in connection with the deadly shooting of Lemaur Thompson Jr. last week along Dunlap Street in Uniontown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Pennsylvania State Police<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2000-reward-in-connection-deadly-uniontown-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a $2,000 reward was being offered<\/a> for information that would lead to Dickinson&#8217;s arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/teens-charged-new-kensington-homicide-preliminary-hearing\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dickinson was previously charged<\/a>\u00a0in connection with the deadly shooting of Jason Raiford in New Kensington in July 2022. He was 14 years old at the time. His case was de-certified from adult court to juvenile court.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, Dickson was taken into custody in Baltimore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate the efforts of the multiple agencies that have worked tirelessly to locate this defendant, including the Pennsylvania State Police, Maryland State Police, U.S. Marshals, and the FBI,&#8221; the DA said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson will now be transported back to Pennsylvania, where he will be facing homicide charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect wanted in a deadly shooting in Uniontown last week has been taken into custody, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2298,28,30,29,220,6267],"class_list":{"0":"post-113150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-fayette-county","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news","12":"tag-shooting","13":"tag-uniontown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}