MCKEESPORT, Pa. — A Pittsburgh woman is facing numerous charges after police say she opened fire Tuesday inside of a McKeesport store.
McKeesport police said Nyesha Simmons, 28, walked into the Metro PCS store on Fifth Avenue around 12:15 p.m. and began shooting at the clerk. Authorities said the clerk, later identified as a former boyfriend of Simmons, and other employees dived to the ground to avoid being shot. No one was injured.%
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“It wasn’t nothing but the blood of Jesus that covered my son because he didn’t have on no bulletproof vest. Those bullets were all around my son,” the victim’s mother, Camille Harriott, said. “She was there 20 minutes prior. This was almost, like, premeditated. Like, she cased the place before she came back in.”
Police said surveillance video inside the store captured the incident.
“(She) came in there and said to my son, ‘You think I’m playing?’ and started shooting,” Harriott said.
Authorities said Simmons was taken into custody not far from the front door of the store, and she was still in possession of the firearm when arrested.
Simmons is charged with criminal attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault, three counts of recklessly endangering another person, firearms not to be carried without a license and persons not to possess a firearm.