SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is behind bars following a shooting that police say is connected to one of two violent incidents in the city within days.<\/p>\n
Roderick Clinton Jenkins, 23, is facing multiple felony charges, including aggravated assault and illegal firearm possession, in connection with a March 15 shooting at an after-hours gathering on Green Ridge Street. Investigators say Jenkins shot a man identified as Eric Garcia following a physical altercation. Garcia was taken to a local hospital by private vehicle and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n
According to court records, Jenkins is also charged with reckless endangerment and simple assault, and is prohibited from possessing a firearm.<\/p>\n
Police say the investigation intensified after a second shooting on April 7 along Clay Avenue. Officers responded to that scene and found Jenkins himself suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg. He was treated at the scene and transported to Geisinger Community Medical Center.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the shooter in that incident fled before officers arrived.<\/p>\n
Later that same night, after being released from the hospital, Jenkins was taken into custody by Scranton Police Major Crimes detectives on an arrest warrant tied to the earlier March shooting.<\/p>\n
Jenkins was arraigned April 8 and is being held in Lackawanna County Prison after failing to post $200,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 21.<\/p>\n
Police said the shooting happened as an extension of a fight that had started the day before at Big Daddy\u2019s Lounge on Cedar Avenue, with Jenkins allegedly shooting Garcia during the ongoing dispute.<\/p>\n
Police say both incidents remain under investigation as they work to determine the full sequence of events surrounding the shootings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is behind bars following a shooting that police say is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-160773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160773","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=160773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}