The Post Gazette
FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. — A Fayette County man was arraigned today on charges of aggravated assault after police said he swung a shovel at a medic answering a call at a neighboring apartment late Sunday.
Robert Shaner, 58, of Connellsville, is also charged with terroristic threats, reckless endangerment, resisting law enforcement, harassment and public drunkenness.
In a news release, state police said a medic arrived at an apartment complex in the 2700 block of Memorial Boulevard in Bullskin to respond to a call at around 10:20 Sunday night. While attempting to contact the patient inside, Mr. Shaner, who was in the adjacent unit, came out and started “cursing and swing a shovel” at the medic and threatened to shoot him.
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