{"id":266282,"date":"2026-08-16T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266282\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:32:15","slug":"mercer-county-apartment-complex-shooting-suspect-now-behind-bars-court-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266282\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercer County apartment complex shooting suspect now behind bars, court records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">SHARON, Pa.  \u2014 UPDATE 10:36 P.M.: Online court records show Anthony Scott Ruiz has been taken into custody. He\u2019s being held in the Mercer County Prison, unable to post bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ORIGINAL COVERAGE: A police department in Western Pennsylvania is searching for a man they say is armed and dangerous after a shooting at an apartment complex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Sharon Police Department says the shooting took place at the Willow Village Apartments on Sterling Avenue around 5:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On scene, officers found a person shot in the arm. That person was taken to a local hospital for further treatment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police say they\u2019re filing attempted homicide, aggravated assault and carrying a firearm without a license charges against Anthony Scott Ruiz, 20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Ruiz is at large and considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached by anyone other than law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Anyone who knows the whereabouts of Ruiz should contact the Sharon Police Department through the Mercer County 911 Center at 724-662-6110 or their local law enforcement agency. <\/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":"SHARON, Pa. \u2014 UPDATE 10:36 P.M.: Online court records show Anthony Scott Ruiz has been taken into custody.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112375,80791,139,859,28,30,29,74,112376,25462,112374,420,112373,860],"class_list":["post-266282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-anthony_scott_ruiz","tag-mercer_county","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-ruiz","tag-sharon","tag-sterling_avenue","tag-video","tag-willow_village","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266282","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=266282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}