A man who was staying with a Shaler family is accused of assaulting the couple and, after taking their handgun, threatening to \u201cgo after\u201d their young daughter, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Shaler police said they arrested Andray Jamall Vereen, 40, Friday night after responding to a reported road rage incident in the 500 block of Mount Vernon Drive.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, the caller said a man in a Kia Soul tried to run them off the road and was parked near their house.<\/p>\n
While officers were investigating that incident, they were advised of a physical domestic with a weapon involved nearby.<\/p>\n
Officers made contact with Vereen, who matched the description of the driver of the Kia Soul, the complaint states. Police said Vereen came out of a home with his hands over his head and holding a gun.<\/p>\n
Officers ordered Vereen to drop the weapon, which he did, and handcuffed him, the complaint states.<\/p>\n
Police said they found the couple and their daughter inside the home. The man had a large gash on top of his head and was bleeding profusely, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, the man told police Vereen was a friend who had been staying with his family for about a week. The man said Vereen had recently lost his job and that he was worried about Vereen\u2019s mental health, which he and his wife had confronted him about that morning.<\/p>\n
After an argument, the man told police that Vereen left and took the man\u2019s car without his permission, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, the man told police that Vereen returned when he and his wife were in bed, and that Vereen was acting erratically. He said Vereen attacked him, got him on the ground and began choking him.<\/p>\n
Fearing for her husband and daughter\u2019s lives, the woman tried to get her husband\u2019s .45-caliber handgun, which was in a case, the complaint states.<\/p>\n
Vereen released her husband and allegedly went after her, pushing her on the bed and punching her twice in the back.<\/p>\n
Vereen took the gun case from her, removed the gun and said, \u201cI\u2019m going after your daughter now,\u201d the complaint says.<\/p>\n
When the man tried to subdue Vereen, Vereen pistol whipped him, according to the complaint. That was when Vereen ran down the stairs and outside, where police arrested him.<\/p>\n
Police said when they were trying to put Vereen into a police vehicle, he threw his back into an officer\u2019s stomach, causing the officer to stumble backwards, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Shaler police charged Vereen with aggravated assault, robbery, endangering the welfare of children, terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, strangulation, unauthorized use of a vehicle and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
Vereen did not have an attorney listed in court records. He was awaiting arraignment on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was staying with a Shaler family is accused of assaulting the couple and, after taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-257308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257308","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=257308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}