{"id":253206,"date":"2026-07-27T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253206\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:58:19","slug":"gunman-jailed-after-firing-shots-at-pennsylvania-state-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253206\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman jailed after firing shots at Pennsylvania State Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">INDIANA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) \u2014 One person is behind bars after allegedly opening fire at Pennsylvania State Police who were responding to a disturbance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Robert John Richard II, 60, of Clarksburg, was charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, assault of a law enforcement officer and lesser related charges Sunday, July 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to state police, Troopers were responding to a disturbance on Valley Road in Young Township, Indiana County, at around 11:45 a.m. It was alleged that Richard was pointing an automatic rifle in the direction of the victim&#8217;s residence while they were inside with their fianc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When arriving, troopers said they saw Richard outside of the victim&#8217;s home with a long gun when he allegedly opened fire directly at the troopers. Fire was immediately returned, with a bullet striking Richard in the shoulder. He was arrested and taken to Forbes Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Richard was arraigned the same day, and bail was denied. He&#8217;s currently in Indiana County Prison to await his next steps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WTAJ | Your News Leader.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtaj.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WTAJ | Your News Leader.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) \u2014 One person is behind bars after allegedly opening fire at Pennsylvania State Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15305,16156,108005,28,30,29,1224,1818,108006],"class_list":["post-253206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-disturbance","tag-indiana-county","tag-john-richard","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-troopers","tag-young-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253206","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=253206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}