A Tuesday night shooting in Scranton had its roots in another shooting on parade day weekend in March, according to police.<\/p>\n
Scranton police say Roderick Jenkins, 23, was the perpetrator in the March incident and the victim in this week\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n
Jenkins was shot at his Clay Avenue home at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday, by an unknown assailant, police say.<\/p>\n
Responding officers found Jenkins had been shot in the leg. They treated him at the scene and facilitated his transport to Geisinger Community Medical Center by ambulance.<\/p>\n
Jenkins was treated, released into police custody and arraigned on charges related to the March shooting.<\/p>\n
In that case, police allege Jenkins shot Eric Garcia in the parking lot of an after-hours club early on March 15.<\/p>\n
That shooting is believed to have been related to a fight at Big Daddy\u2019s bar on Cedar Avenue on March 14, following Scranton\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Parade.<\/p>\n
Officers reviewed surveillance video from the altercation at Big Daddy\u2019s and identified Jenkins as one of several patrons involved in the fight.<\/p>\n
Garcia was treated and released, and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n
The suspect in Monday\u2019s shooting was not immediately apprehended and the incident remains under investigation, according to Scranton police.<\/p>\n
Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact the Scranton Police Department or submit a tip online.<\/p>\n
Jenkins is charged with aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, reckless endangerment and related charges for the March 15 incident.<\/p>\n
He remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $200,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on April 21 before District Judge Paul Ware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tuesday night shooting in Scranton had its roots in another shooting on parade day weekend in March,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-161624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161624","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=161624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}