{"id":306478,"date":"2026-10-14T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306478\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:48:19","slug":"argument-over-cigarette-at-pittsburgh-gas-station-led-to-bat-attack-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306478\/","title":{"rendered":"Argument over cigarette at Pittsburgh gas station led to bat attack, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RaquelBELLEVUE, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n

A man is facing charges after authorities say he chased and hit another man with a bat outside a gas station.<\/p>\n

Authorities were called to the Sunoco gas station on Cedar Avenue in Pittsburgh around 3:57 a.m. Tuesday. <\/p>\n

An employee told police David Rose got into an argument with another man after the victim asked for a cigarette. <\/p>\n

According to a criminal complaint, when the man asked for a cigarette, Rose replied, “No, get a job.” <\/p>\n

That’s when officials say the argument erupted. The complaint states that the victim yelled at Rose then threw a handful of rocks in his direction, hitting Rose’s vehicle.<\/p>\n

The employee said Rose chased the victim through the parking lot and hit him with a bat. <\/p>\n

Rose allegedly admitted to chasing the victim through the parking lot, but said the victim fell in the middle of the road.<\/p>\n

The victim told police he had been hit about 20 times with the baseball bat, according to the complaint. He was taken to a hospital where his injuries were determined to be consistent with getting hit with a blunt object.<\/p>\n

According to the criminal complaint, there is video of Rose with the baseball bat, but no video of the alleged attack.<\/p>\n

Rose is facing multiple charges, including aggravated assault, disorderly conduct and simple assault. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELLEVUE, Pa. \u2014 A man is facing charges after authorities say he chased and hit another man with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10951,125710,3646,44800,125709,125711,454,16367,8467,14704,1399,33214,73,73780,75,74,206,108440,125712,6967,890],"class_list":["post-306478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-argument","tag-attack-with-baseball-bat","tag-authority","tag-bat","tag-bat-attack","tag-bat-attack-at-gas-sation","tag-charge","tag-cigarette","tag-criminal-complaint","tag-employee","tag-man","tag-parking-lot","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-gas-station","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police","tag-rose","tag-sunoco-gas-station-attack","tag-vehicle","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306478","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=306478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}