West Virginia man shot in city
Uniontown police said a West Virginia man suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg following an incident in the city on Wednesday. Patrolman Thomas Kolencik said police were called to Uniontown Hospital at 3:49 p.m. for a report of an injured man and found Jordan Lee Holmes, 19, of Reedsville with a gunshot wound to his right leg. Kolencik said Holmes told police that he was with a friend from Point Marion at a gas station on Connellsville Street Wednesday afternoon when two unidenfied men approached them. Holmes said that one of the men then pulled a handgun and shot him.
Police said they found Holmes’ girlfriend’s vehicle in the hospital parking lot with the rear driver’s side window shot out.
Kolencik said investigators also found a bullet hole near the gas cap cover, a bullet lodged in the rear driver’s side window frame and a dent in the roof from another bullet.
According to Kolencik, police also discovered more than 12 grams of suspected marijuana in the car, a digital scale and other drug paraphernalia.
Uniontown police Chief Jason A. Cox said that incident remains under investigation as police continue to examine evidence.
He noted that Holmes’s injury is not life threatening.
He said anyone with information is asked to call police at 724-430-2929.