Daisytown man held for trial in Greene homicide
Jason William Roe, 32, of Daisytown, Washington County, is led from a Greene County courtroom Monday afternoon following a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Lou Dayich. Roe will stand trial in the alleged shooting death of Cordele Edward Patterson, of Grindstone, last month.
Ed Riedmann
Ed Riedmann Jason William Roe, 32, of Daisytown, Washington County, is led from a Greene County courtroom Monday afternoon following a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Lou Dayich. Roe will stand trial in the alleged shooting death of Cordele Edward Patterson of Grindstone last month.
WAYNESBURG — A Washington County man who allegedly shot and killed a Fayette County man at a secluded hunting cabin in Greene County will stand trial.
State police Trooper Jeremy Barni said Jason William Roe, 32, of Daisytown, was charged with homicide and aggravated assault following the shooting last month.
Magisterial District Judge Lou Dayich held both charges against Roe for Greene County Court following a preliminary hearing Monday afternoon in Waynesburg.
Barni also charged Roe’s wife, Lana Kay Roe, 40, of Daisytown with criminal homicide and providing false reports to law enforcement for her alleged role in the shooting death of Cordele Edward Patterson, 38, of Grindstone and in a bogus burglary she and her husband reported four days before the shooting in which she implicated Patterson as the suspect.
She was also held for trial following a preliminary hearing earlier this month before Dayich.
Barni testified that Patterson was shot multiple times with a shotgun by Jason Roe at the cabin located on Strawn Hill Road in Wayne Township shortly before 2 p.m. Aug. 14.
Barni testified that Jason Roe also shot Lana Roe in the face during the incident but police later said that she was not an intended target.
After identifying Jason Roe as the primary suspect in the shooting, police said he was captured by West Virginia state police in the Morgantown area.
Barni testified that during a subsequent interview with police, Jason Roe admitted to shooting Patterson and detailed how he shot at him outside the cabin but missed and accidentally struck his wife.
Barni testified that Jason Roe chased Patterson into the cabin where he shot him in the shoulder, knocking him to the floor behind a sofa. Jason Roe then climbed on top of the sofa and pointed the shotgun over the back of the couch at Patterson and shot him again, this time in the neck, Barni testified.
Jason Roe was represented by public Defender Harry Cancelmi.
In addition to Barni, Greene County Coroner Gregory Rohanna also testified Monday.
Following the hearing, Dayich remanded Jason Roe back to Greene County Prison without bond. Lana Roe also remains in Greene County Prison without bond.