Search underway after shots fired from 2 cars in Pitcairn

PITCAIRN, Pa. — Scary moments for neighbors along Hillside Avenue in Pitcairn on Wednesday morning as they watched a police chase happen feet away from their front doors.

“I was in my bedroom and heard a ruckus out back so I opened my back door and I heard this cop saying, ‘I think they’re out back here. I think I got’em!’” said Jeff Lennox.

Channel 11 saw two men jump off the front porch and run behind some houses. Lennox said just moments later he heard some sort of scuffle on his back porch. Then those two men ran down a narrow alleyway and took off across the street.

“Heard police on their radio saying they’re coming this way,” Lennox said.

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Police believe the two men are connected to a shootout that happened right along Broadway Boulevard in Pitcairn on Wednesday morning.

Surveillance video captured the shootout.  Police tell us a gray Pontiac pulled up next to a white car and blocked the driver.

“At that time, the car stopped briefly,” said Pitcairn police Chief Scott Farally. “Witnesses state that’s when the gentlemen in the passenger side of the vehicle fired at the white-colored vehicle.”

Witnesses tell Channel 11 at one point, both cars were driving along the busy main road, one of them going in the wrong direction.

Lennox said the activity is unusual for that area.

“To hear gunshots or anything. Oh yeah! It’s quiet right around here,” he said.

Police are still searching for the two men who fled, and they’re also looking for the white car believed to have been driven by the shooting victim.

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