PITTSBURGH (AP) – Two Pittsburgh elementary school students face discipline after one student shot another with a toy gun that fires plastic pellets, and another student was also found to have a similar gun.
Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman Mercedes Howze says the incidents happened on a school bus Friday and involved students from Pittsburgh Liberty, a K-5 school.
A fourth-grader allegedly shot his gun, hitting another student in the leg. The student wasn’t injured.
The student who shot the gun told school officials he got the toy from another student, who was found to also have a similar toy gun.
School police were continuing Wednesday to investigate where the student got the toy guns. Officials wouldn’t say what kind of discipline the boys will face.
Man jailed on charges he attacked jogging marshal
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Pittsburgh man has been jailed on charges he groped and attacked a U.S. marshal as she jogged on a trail near the Allegheny River.
Online court records weren’t listing an attorney for 19-year-old Robert Flynn who was charged with aggravated assault, indecent assault and escape.
The female marshal tells police she was jogging Tuesday evening when Flynn approached, grabbed her buttocks then pulled down her shorts.
As Flynn ran away, the woman identified herself as a marshal and yelled for Flynn to stop while chasing him and yelling for others nearby to call 911.
The marshal tells police she cornered the man on a staircase of a nearby apartment building, where she kicked Flynn in the groin when he lunged at her.
A city magistrate set bail at $500,000 and scheduled a preliminary hearing Sept. 11.
