{"id":226725,"date":"2026-06-24T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226725\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:56:37","slug":"vehicle-stolen-at-gunpoint-involved-in-crash-in-swissvale-2-people-facing-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226725\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle stolen at gunpoint, involved in crash in Swissvale; 2 people facing charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">SWISSVALE, Pa. \u2014 Two people are facing charges after a vehicle was stolen at gunpoint and then involved in a crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Information shared by the Allegheny County Police Department on Monday said Evan I. Jackson, 19, and Kiara Williams, 19, were identified as suspects in an incident that happened in Swissvale on June 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police said that was when a man who was leaving work on the 7500 block of Dickson Street was approached by a man with a gun. The gunman robbed the victim and made him walk to the opposite side of the parking lot. The victim told police he then saw a woman enter the parking lot. She joined the robber and the two left in the victim\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The stolen vehicle was later found at a crash scene at the intersection of South Braddock Avenue and Roslyn Street. The two people inside the vehicle ran away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Monday, investigators said they traced the crime back to Jackson and Williams using evidence found at the crash scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Jackson is charged with robbery, robbery of a motor vehicle, carrying a firearm without a license and persons not to possess a firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Williams is charged with criminal conspiracy and accidents involving damage to an attended vehicle or property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 is working to obtain court paperwork to learn more about the evidence gathered and will share updates as they are made available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWISSVALE, Pa. \u2014 Two people are facing charges after a vehicle was stolen at gunpoint and then involved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7011,6889,4738,7012,7013,7014,4029,7015,7016,7017,7018,7019,4813,7020,1681,5609,7021,7022,7023,7024,7025,7026,7027,7028,7029,73,75,74,206,7030,7031,2009,7032,7033,7034,7035,7036],"class_list":["post-226725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-abstract","tag-art","tag-background","tag-beam","tag-beautiful","tag-beauty","tag-black","tag-bright","tag-bulb","tag-color","tag-colorful","tag-concert","tag-design","tag-effect","tag-entertainment","tag-event","tag-flare","tag-flash","tag-glow","tag-illustration","tag-lens","tag-light","tag-magic","tag-optical","tag-party","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police","tag-ray","tag-shine","tag-space","tag-splash","tag-stage","tag-star","tag-streaks","tag-sunny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226725","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=226725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}