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Charges filed in connection with incident in which shots were fired in Tarentum

Police were called to Corbet Street early Monday morning

Charges filed in connection with incident in which shots were fired in Tarentum

Police were called to Corbet Street early Monday morning

PITTSBURGH ACTION NEWS FOUR. ALL RIGHT, TORI UP TO THE MINUTE DEVELOPMENTS IN A STORY THAT WE BROUGHT YOU AS BREAKING NEWS ON MONDAY MORNING. CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED IN A SHOTS FIRED INCIDENT IN TARENTUM. POLICE SAY FREEDOM BROWN WAS INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT. TWO PEOPLE WERE INJURED, BUT THEY WERE NOT SHOT. POLICE SAY BROWN GOT INTO A VERBAL ALTERCATION WITH THEM AT A GAS STATION AND SAID SHE WAS GOING TO GET SOMEONE TO KILL ONE OF THEM. POLICE SAY SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS BROWN LATER POINTING OUT THE VICTIMS TO TWO MEN. ONE OF WHICH FIRED EIGHT SHOTS AT THEM.
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Charges filed in connection with incident in which shots were fired in Tarentum

Police were called to Corbet Street early Monday morning

An investigation is underway after shots were fired toward two people in downtown Tarentum early Monday morning, according to Allegheny County Police. The incident happened a little before 2:45 a.m. in the area of Corbet Street and E. Sixth Avenue.The man and woman who were shot at suffered minor injuries, but detectives said they were not injured by the gunfire. The two people involved told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 they were walking home from the bar after stopping at a nearby gas station when a vehicle stopped and began firing shots their way.A nearby business owner said she heard roughly seven shots and saw the man and woman run off. On Wednesday morning, Pittsburgh's Action News 4 obtained a criminal complaint for Freedom Brown, 41, of Brackenridge.The criminal complaint said Brown got into a verbal altercation with the victims at a gas station and said she was going to get someone to kill one of them.Police said surveillance video shows Brown later pointing out the victims to two men, of one which fired eight shots at them.As of Wednesday morning, Brown was the only person charged in the case.

An investigation is underway after shots were fired toward two people in downtown Tarentum early Monday morning, according to Allegheny County Police.

The incident happened a little before 2:45 a.m. in the area of Corbet Street and E. Sixth Avenue.

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The man and woman who were shot at suffered minor injuries, but detectives said they were not injured by the gunfire.

The two people involved told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 they were walking home from the bar after stopping at a nearby gas station when a vehicle stopped and began firing shots their way.

A nearby business owner said she heard roughly seven shots and saw the man and woman run off.

On Wednesday morning, Pittsburgh's Action News 4 obtained a criminal complaint for Freedom Brown, 41, of Brackenridge.

The criminal complaint said Brown got into a verbal altercation with the victims at a gas station and said she was going to get someone to kill one of them.

Police said surveillance video shows Brown later pointing out the victims to two men, of one which fired eight shots at them.

As of Wednesday morning, Brown was the only person charged in the case.