CLAIRTON, Pa. — Police have charged a teen girl with attempted homicide after a shots-fired incident in Clairton.
Allegheny County police say Euveaya Fuqua is only 15 years old and can’t own a gun, but they claim she shot an AR-style rifle at two other people Friday afternoon.
According to records obtained by Channel 11, a Clairton police officer heard gunshots and went to investigate. The officer reportedly found Fuqua in a backyard along Halcomb Street and went to detain her.
Records say Fuqua resisted and slammed into the officer, damaging a police vehicle. A juvenile was seen nearby holding an AR-style rifle, but he ran away. Police later found the rifle, loaded, in a trash can.
Police interviewed another girl, who claimed she was walking on Oak Alley to visit a man just after 2 p.m. She allegedly saw the juvenile Fuqua yelling at the man’s home, with Fuqua holding a rifle.
The girl claimed she’d seen Fuqua post the rifle on social media previously.
When the two saw the girl, they allegedly began approaching and threatening her. Just then, the man exited his home, and she and the girl started running.
As the two escaped to a nearby home, they heard gunfire, the girl told police. She claimed the shots started quickly, so it must have been Fuqua who was shooting and not the juvenile, records say.
Police note that the home where the two hid had been hit by gunfire. Seventeen spent rifle rounds were found in the area.
Online court records show Fuqua is facing a long list of charges, including attempted homicide, assault, reckless endangerment and having a gun as a minor.
Fuqua is being held in the Allegheny County Jail and has been denied bail, being deemed a “threat to society,” records show.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 16.
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