Two people are dead and one other is injured after a violent night in Johnstown on Wednesday. Police are now releasing more information about the two shootings and they say they’re not connected.
At nine p.m. Wednesday police arrived on Edith Avenue in Johnstown’s West End. That’s when they found the 24-year-old victim, Kyfen Jones, dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
Police say a second victim, Ravaunn Hardrick, survived the shooting and was able to shed some light as to what happened in the alley off of the street.
“He and Mr. Jones were in the alley, walking in the alley area,” district attorney Kelly Callihan explains. “They saw two individuals up ahead of them. When they got close, these two individuals opened fire.”
Callihan says they located two guns, and believe there could be a third gun involved. Right now they don’t know who the two suspects are or if they know the victims. They do believe though that a dark colored jeep left the area at the time of the shooting.
“To try to comment on a motive, would be pure speculation at this point,” Callihan says.
A short time later police were called out to Pine Street in the Hornerstown neighborhood. Here police think eight people were involved in a fight that took place in or near a car. The victim is 17-year-old Kasper Martin.
After shots were fired, everyone ran from scene, but two individuals returned, according to Callihan, “They placed him in the vehicle and their intention was to drive him to Windber Hospital.”
We’re told the driver was running out of gas so he called two others for help. Instead of taking Martin to Conemaugh Hospital, they drove to Windber.
“There was some disorientation with the neighborhood,” Johnstown Police Captain Jeff Janciga says. “Picture in your head something like this happens and you’re not certain where it is that you’re at.”
Police are still working to identify the individuals involved in that incident. They say there were no security cameras close to either crime scene.
If you have any information you’re asked to call police.
