1 injured after vehicle crashes, overturns in Etna creek

Car crashes, overturns in Etna creek | 1 person injured

THE NEWS AT SIX WITH KRISTIN AND MIKE STARTS RIGHT NOW. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR AT SIX STARTS NOW. WE’RE BEGINNING THIS IMPACT DAY WITH PITTSBURGH’S ACTION WEATHER. AS STORMS ARE PASSING THROUGH OUR AREA RIGHT NOW, INCLUDING SOME PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN, AS WELL AS TORNADO WARNINGS FROM SOME PARTS OF OUR EASTERN COUNTIES. THOSE HAVE SINCE EXPIRED. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TONIGHT AT 6:00. I’M KRISTEN POWERS. I’M MIKE CLARK CHIEF METEOROLOGIST MIKE HARVEY JOINS US NOW WITH YOUR CERTIFIED MOST ACCURATE FORECAST. MIKE, THESE STORMS ARE BEGINNING TO MOVE ON OUT. THEY ARE OUT TO THE EAST. BUT WE STILL HAVE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. EXCUSE ME. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745. THAT’S NEAR THE CALIFORNIA AREA. BUT FIRST I WANT TO SHOW YOU FROM CANONSBURG TO THE NORTH AND OUT TO THE WEST AND THOSE AREAS, YOU’LL MAYBE SEE A SPRINKLE THROUGH THE REST OF TONIGHT AS SOUTH AND EAST OF THERE YOU CAN SEE WE STILL HAVE THAT HEAVY RAIN THAT IS MOVING ACROSS THE REGION DOWN TOWARDS FARMINGTON RIGHT NOW, GETTING HIT HARD WITH THE VERY HEAVY RAIN AT THIS TIME. STRONG WIND GUSTS, LIGHTNING AS WELL, AS WELL AS THE HAIL IS GOING TO BE MOVING THROUGH THIS AREA DOWN TOWARDS MORGANTOWN. ALSO SOME VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT’S PUSHING IN YOUR LOCATION. NOW. EARLIER WE HAD A LOT OF HEAVY RAIN IN THE AREA WHERE WE HAVE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING AGAIN UNTIL 745. THE AREAS IN YELLOW IS WHERE WE SAW POTENTIALLY UP TO A COUPLE INCHES OF RAIN. SO THOSE AREAS, ESPECIALLY BACK TOWARDS CLAYSVILLE AS WELL, THAT’S WHERE WE COULD BE SEEING STREAMS, CREEKS POSSIBLY COMING OUT OF THEIR BANKS AT THIS TIME. AND ALSO CERTAINLY COULD HAVE SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS WITH THIS AS WE GO THROUGH THE NIGHT. AND REALLY FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO, WE’RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TRACK THESE STORMS. WE’LL HAVE MORE ON WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT AS WE GO THROUGH THE WEEK. THAT’S COMING UP IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. MIKE. WESTMORELAND COUNTY MAN IS BEHIND BARS TONIGHT ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING HIS UNCLE THIS WEEKEND. JOSH LOWERY WAS CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL HOMICIDE OVER WHAT INVESTIGATORS ARE CALLING A LANDLORD AND TENANT ISSUE. LOWERY ALLEGEDLY TOLD POLICE HE FEARED FOR HIS LIFE WHEN HIS UNCLE VISITED HIM OVER THE WEEKEND IN MOUNT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP. WESTMORELAND BUREAU REPORTER ED DIORIO BRINGS US UP TO SPEED ON THIS INVESTIGATION, ALONG WITH THE REACTION FROM PEOPLE CLOSE TO THAT FAMILY. FOR AROUND 3 TO 4 YEARS, JOSH LOWERY LIVED IN THIS HOME HERE IN MOUNT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP ALONG LOW STREET, AND HE WOULD PAY RENT TO HIS LANDLORD, WHO WAS ALSO HIS UNCLE BRUCE CASE. AND THERE WERE NO ISSUES FOR MOST OF THAT TIME. BUT INVESTIGATORS WITH STATE POLICE SAY THAT THAT CHANGED OVER THE WEEKEND AFTER LOWERY ALLEGEDLY SHOT AND KILLED HIS UNCLE OVER AN EVICTION NOTICE. WHAT APPEARS TO BE A LANDLORD TENANT DISPUTE SOMEHOW ENDED UP GETTING SIDEWAYS. THE ORIGINAL ARGUMENT WAS ABOUT UTILITIES POSSIBLY BEING TURNED OFF. INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THE CASE, WHICH CAME TO THIS HOUSE THIS PAST SATURDAY MORNING TO TALK TO HIS NEPHEW AND TENANT, JOSH LOWERY. LOWERY ALLEGEDLY TOLD POLICE THAT HIS UNCLE SHOWED UP WEARING GLOVES AND HAD A WOODEN PADDLE. AFTER LOWERY LET KESWICK IN, HE ALLEGEDLY GRABBED A MODERN MUZZLELOADER AND SHOT HIS UNCLE IN THE CHEST. INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE LOWERY HADN’T PAID HIS RENT FOR MORE THAN A YEAR AND WAS GIVEN AN EVICTION NOTICE ON JUNE 15TH BY HIS UNCLE. THOSE WHO LIVED WITH LOWERY BEFORE IN THAT HOUSE WERE SURPRISED BY SATURDAY’S INCIDENT. I COULDN’T EVEN BELIEVE IT AT ALL. IT IT WAS ANYBODY IN THE FAMILY BECAUSE NONE OF THEM REALLY DID EVER — HEADS LIKE THAT. IT SUCKS THAT SOMEBODY LOST THEIR LIFE AND IT SHOULDN’T END UP THIS WAY. I SPOKE TO MULTIPLE FAMILY MEMBERS OF CASE AT THE HOME HERE ON MONDAY, AND ALL THEY HAD TO TELL ME WAS THAT THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT. AS FOR LOWERY, HE IS BEING HELD AT THE WESTMORELAND COUNTY PRISON AND IS FACING A CRIMINAL HOMICIDE CHARGE. COVERING WESTMORELAND COUNTY IN MOUNT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP. ED DIORIO, PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. EDITOR. THANK YOU. A MASSIVE POLICE PRESENCE IN A QUIET PART OF JEFFERSON HILLS, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, OVER THE WEEKEND, ENDING WITH A MAN DEAD AND A SUSPECT FOUND ACROSS STATE LINES AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY STABBED HIS FATHER TO DEATH. OFFICERS FOUND KABIR BUHARI IN A MARYLAND HOTEL EARLY THIS MORNING. RIGHT NOW, HE IS AWAITING EXTRADITION TO THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS 4 REPORTER MARCIE CIPRIANI JOINS US FROM OUTSIDE OF THE JAIL WITH THE DETAILS. WE’RE NOW LEARNING. ACCORDING TO POLICE, 42 YEAR OLD KABIR BUHARI STABBED HIS FATHER IN THE NECK, CHEST AND FACE REPEATEDLY, THEN FLED THE HOME HE SHARED WITH HIS PARENTS, LEAVING HIS FATHER THERE ON THE FLOOR AND HIS MOTHER TO FIND HIM DEAD INSIDE. WE SEE PEOPLE GOING DOWN WITH CAMOUFLAGE GEAR, ALL TACTICAL GEAR. WHEN SWAT ARRIVED ALONG ARNONE DRIVE IN JEFFERSON HILLS AROUND 4 P.M. SATURDAY, THEY WERE FOCUSED ON FINDING A PERSON WHO KILLED 69 YEAR OLD ALHAJI BUHARI, LEAVING HIM LYING ON THE FLOOR NEAR THE FAMILY’S KITCHEN AND TWO KNIVES LEFT ON THE COUNTER NEARBY, ALONG WITH A TRAIL OF BLOOD LEADING TO THE BASEMENT, WHERE INVESTIGATORS SAY THE COUPLE’S SON, KABIR BUHARI, SPENT MUCH OF HIS TIME. A POLICE OFFICER CAME UP WITH HIS RIFLE AS WELL WITH TWO OTHER PEOPLE, AND THEY TOLD US TO ACTUALLY LEAVE THAT AREA BECAUSE IT WAS CONSIDERED A CRIME SCENE FOR THOSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE SCENE WAS INTENSE FOR A TIME, BUT WHEN INVESTIGATORS REALIZED THE KILLER WAS GONE, THE FOCUS SHIFTED. POLICE SAY THEY DISCOVERED A VEHICLE MISSING FROM THE HOME HIT A LICENSE PLATE READER SIX MINUTES AWAY. JUST AFTER 10:30 A.M. THEN AN HOUR LATER, A PLATE READER IN FAYETTE COUNTY HEADED TOWARD MARYLAND, WHERE POLICE SAY THE BUHARI FAMILY LIVES. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE SUSPECT’S MOTHER TOLD THEM THAT THEIR SON HAS STRUGGLED WITH MENTAL ILLNESS, THAT HE HAS TRIED TO BREAK INTO THEIR BEDROOM TO GET TO HIS FATHER IN THE PAST, AND THAT THERE HAVE BEEN POLICE ENCOUNTERS THAT ENDED WITH KABIR BUHARI BEING INVOLUNTARILY COMMITTED ON SATURDAY. POLICE SAY ALHAJI BUHARI’S WIFE TOLD THEM THAT SHE LEFT THE HOME JUST BEFORE 9 A.M. TO RUN ERRANDS. ALHAJI AND KABIR WERE BOTH HOME WHEN SHE SAYS SHE RETURNED. HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD AND THEIR SON GONE. POLICE SAY KABIR BUHARI WAS FOUND IN A HOTEL IN BETHESDA, MARYLAND, WHERE HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AND WILL NOW BE EXTRADITED. BACK HERE TO OUR AREA AND TO THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL, WHERE INVESTIGATORS HAVE NOW CHARGED HIM WITH CRIMINAL HOMICIDE FOR KILLING HIS FATHER ON THE DAY BEFORE FATHER’S DAY. COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY FROM ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL, MARCIE CIPRIANI PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. MARCIE. THANK YOU. THE SEARCH ACROSS MULTIPLE COUNTIES FOR SUSPECT ACCUSED OF FIRING SHOTS AT A COUPLE AT A BEAVER COUNTY GAS STATION ON SUNDAY NIGHT. THE SUSPECT FLED TOWARDS BUTLER COUNTY, PROMPTING A LATE NIGHT SEARCH IN CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER KALEA GUNDERSON HAS THE DETAILS FROM NEW BRIGHTON TONIGHT, INCLUDING THE STATUS OF THE SEARCH FOR THAT SUSPECT. THE SUSPECT IS 33 YEAR OLD JALEN ISAIAH SIMS, AND POLICE SAY HE FIRED A GUN AT A COUPLE WHO HAD PULLED INTO THE SPEEDWAY IN NEW BRIGHTON TO GET GAS. POLICE SAY HE THEN GOT BACK IN THE CAR HE ARRIVED IN, HELD HIS GETAWAY DRIVER AT GUNPOINT AND TOOK OFF. CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP POLICE ENCOUNTERING THE ALLEGED GETAWAY DRIVER AROUND 9:00 LAST NIGHT NEAR THE TOWNSHIP BUILDING, AFTER THE CAR HAD RUN OUT OF GAS IN A NEARBY CHURCH PARKING LOT. ACCORDING TO THE COMPLAINT, THE DRIVER TOLD POLICE SIMS HAD TAKEN OFF FROM THE CAR, BUT THE DRIVER WAS ON THE PHONE WITH 911. SIMS RETURNED TO THE CAR, PUNCHED HIM IN THE FACE AND THEN AS POLICE WERE ARRIVING, HE TOOK OFF AGAIN. BUT THE START OF THE SEARCH BEGAN. AN HOUR AND A HALF PRIOR AT THIS SPEEDWAY ON FIFTH STREET IN NEW BRIGHTON, POLICE SAY SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS SHOWED SIMS GET OUT OF THE PASSENGER SIDE OF A CAR SHORTLY AFTER 730 THAT EVENING AND PACE FOR A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE GRABBING A GUN WITH AN EXTENDED MAGAZINE OUT OF A BOOK BAG IN THE BACK SEAT. MOMENTS LATER, A COUPLE PULLED IN AND PARKED AT PUMP FIVE. POLICE SAY SIMS APPROACHED THEIR CAR AND FIRED A SHOT AT THEM. IT HIT THE CAR AND BOUNCED OFF. THEN HE GOT BACK IN HIS CAR AND TOOK OFF. LATER, POLICE RESPONDED TO ROCHESTER ROAD, WHERE A HOMEOWNER TOLD THEM TWO MEN DROVE RIGHT UP INTO THEIR DRIVEWAY, RAN THROUGH A BREEZEWAY AND DUMPED SOMETHING OVER THE HILLSIDE BEHIND THE HOME. THAT’S WHERE POLICE FOUND THE BOOK BAG WITH THE GUN. THE DRIVER TELLING POLICE AFTER SIMS FIRED THE SHOT AT THE SPEEDWAY, SIMS HELD HIM AT GUNPOINT AND ORDERED HIM TO DRIVE. THE DRIVER IS NOT FACING ANY CHARGES AT THIS POINT. HOWEVER, SIMS FACES 11 CHARGES, INCLUDING ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. HIS GUN POSSESSION CHARGES STEM FROM A PREVIOUS CONVICTION. COVERING BEAVER COUNTY IN NEW BRIGHTON, KALEA GUNDERSON PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR, COVERING ARMSTRONG COUNTY, NOW A PARKS TOWNSHIP BAR, IS BEING SUED FOLLOWING A SHOOTING IN THEIR PARKING LOT THAT HAPPENED BACK IN APRIL. ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND THREE OTHERS HURT DURING A GUN OUTSIDE OF NICKIE’S BAR. SUSPECT DAVID DUNMIRE WAS CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE AND IS AWAITING TRIAL. MEANWHILE, ONE OF THE VICTIMS IS NOW SUING THE OWNER OF THE BAR, CLAIMING THAT THEY WERE NEGLIGENT THAT NIGHT. ACCORDING TO OUR PARTNERS AT THE TRIB, THE LAWSUIT FILED FRIDAY NAMES THE OWNERS AND TEN WORKERS. THE LAWSUIT CLAIMS BOUNCERS WERE NOT PRESENT WHEN THE SHOOTING OCCURRED, STATING, QUOTE, DEFENDANTS FAILED TO IMMEDIATELY CALL 911, SUMMON POLICE, REQUEST EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, REMOVE THE DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL OR OTHERWISE PROTECT PLAINTIFF AND OTHER PATRONS. A SUSPECT INVOLVED IN A POLICE CHASE CRASHES INTO A BUSINESS AND LEAVES THE SCENE. THIS HAPPENED SATURDAY EVENING AT THE INTERSECTION OF BECKS RUN ROAD AND EAST CARSON STREET, JUST ACROSS FROM PAGE DAIRY MART. CAMERAS AT PAGES CAPTURED THE SCENE AS CUSTOMERS IN LINE WATCHED IN SHOCK. ACCORDING TO POLICE, OFFICERS IDENTIFIED A VEHICLE BELONGING TO A SUSPECT WANTED ON ROBBERY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES. INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY WERE UNABLE TO LOCATE THAT SUSPECT. ANOTHER PERSON WAS INSIDE THAT CAR AT THE TIME. THEY WERE NOT HURT. TONIGHT, ANOTHER PUBLIC HEARING AT THE WOODLAND HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER SUPERINTENDENT DOCTOR JOE MALECNIK. MALECNIK HAS BEEN ON LEAVE SINCE NOVEMBER OVER ALLEGATIONS SURFACED OF GENDER BASED DISCRIMINATION AND HARASSMENT. WITNESSES ARE ONCE AGAIN EXPECTED TO TESTIFY REGARDING THE SUPERINTENDENT’S ALLEGED CONDUCT. AN ADDITIONAL HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY EVENING. TONIGHT’S HEARING GOT UNDERWAY AT THE TOP OF THE HOUR COVERING BUTLER COUNTY. NOW, ADAMS TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS ARE VOTING TONIGHT ON APPROVING A MERGER WITH NEARBY MARS BOROUGH. THE VOTE WILL TAKE PLACE DURING TONIGHT’S SCHEDULED BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING. THAT’S AT 7:00. MARS BOROUGH OFFICIALS STILL NEED TO APPROVE THE MERGER AS WELL. THEY’LL VOTE ON IT NEXT MONTH. IF APPROVED BY BOTH, THE MERGER WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE IN JANUARY 2028. MARS WOULD MERGE INTO ADAMS TOWNSH

One person was taken to the hospital after a vehicle crashed and overturned in a creek in Etna, Allegheny County Monday night.VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 Allegheny County dispatchers told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that crews were called to Dewey and Crescent Streets around 7:30 p.m. following reports of a crash. A photo from the scene showed officials removing the vehicle. Dispatchers said one person was taken to the hospital. Action News 4 is working to learn more about what led to the incident. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.

ETNA, Pa. —

One person was taken to the hospital after a vehicle crashed and overturned in a creek in Etna, Allegheny County Monday night.

VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4

Allegheny County dispatchers told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that crews were called to Dewey and Crescent Streets around 7:30 p.m. following reports of a crash.

A photo from the scene showed officials removing the vehicle.

Dispatchers said one person was taken to the hospital.

Action News 4 is working to learn more about what led to the incident.

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