A Scranton man is in police custody at a hospital after an investigation into a Thursday night homicide in Monroe County.<\/p>\n
Police say Yasim McDonald is in custody and charged with the June 18th homicide of Layzon Breland, according to Pocono Mountain Regional Police Chief Chris Wagner in a press release. <\/p>\n
Police were dispatched to a house around 8 pm Thursday on Chelsea Circle in Coolbaugh Township for the report of a person with a gunshot wound. <\/p>\n
Police say they were told Breland was in a fight with an unknown man in the front yard before retreating inside. <\/p>\n
Witnesses told police Breland armed himself with a gun, and a gunfight began when the man chased after him inside. <\/p>\n
Wagner said Breland was struck several times and succumbed to his injuries, while the other man was also struck before fleeing in a white car. <\/p>\n
Around 20 minutes later, police say a white car dropped off McDonald with a gunshot wound at a Scranton hospital. <\/p>\n
Following the execution of several search warrants and DNA analysis, Wagner said police determined McDonald\u2019s association with the fight, and he was charged with homicide. <\/p>\n
McDonald is currently hospitalized in Pocono Mountain Regional Police custody after he was denied bail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man is in police custody at a hospital after an investigation into a Thursday night homicide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[457,2941,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-225009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-homicide","tag-monroe-county","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225009","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=225009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}