A Greensburg man accused of assaulting two women in McKeesport in June was arrested at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Allegheny County sheriff\u2019s deputies apprehended 43-year-old David Cochran on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Authorities said initial reports indicated he was visiting a patient at the Pittsburgh hospital, but it later was determined he was a patient there under an alias.<\/p>\n
McKeesport police filed charges against Cochran including kidnapping, strangulation, intimidation of witnesses or victims, possession of instruments of a crime, criminal attempt and false imprisonment. He faces two counts each of simple assault, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, unlawful restraint and terroristic threats.<\/p>\n
Charges stem from an incident June 20 in the 2200 block of Sylvan Avenue in McKeesport.<\/p>\n
Cochran allegedly assaulted two women and threatened to kill them after one refused to leave a house all three were occupying.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, one victim said he threw her to the ground, began duct taping her and tried to roll her into a carpet.<\/p>\n
Another woman attempted to intervene by jumping on Cochran\u2019s back and told him she would call the cops.<\/p>\n
Cochran reportedly said, \u201cI\u2019ll kill both of you right now,\u201d and forcibly carried the second victim to a bedroom and locked her inside.<\/p>\n
He also reportedly threatened to get into a shootout with police if officers were called, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
The first victim told police Cochran smashed a mirror in her
\nface and punched her several times, causing her to lose a tooth, court documents read.<\/p>\n
Cochran also held a knife against her rib cage and gagged her with black electrical tape before taping her mouth, hands and feet and choking her with an extension cord, the victim said.<\/p>\n
The first victim said when Cochran grabbed the second victim and went into another room, she was able to get the knife Cochran was using and cut the tape on her wrist.<\/p>\n
She then jumped out of a window onto a roof and then off the roof to the front steps before running down the street.<\/p>\n
Police said the first victim had abrasions, including a cut above her left eyebrow and bleeding\/swollen lips.<\/p>\n
Authorities said Cochran was served with three bench warrants from Allegheny County and one from Westmoreland County while at the hospital Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Online court documents did not list an attorney for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Greensburg man accused of assaulting two women in McKeesport in June was arrested at Allegheny General Hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-277898","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\/277898","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=277898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}