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Police: Man held gun to caregiver’s head in South Hills Terrace

By Alyssa Choiniere achoiniere@heraldstandard.Com 3 min read

A warrant was issued for a Brownsville man who allegedly held a gun to a woman’s head outside a South Hills Terrace residence and said she owed him money Saturday afternoon.

Isiah Darnell Scott, 25, is charged with aggravated assault, prohibited possession of a firearm, firearms not to be carried without a license, terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and defiant trespass.

The alleged victim, a 37-year-old Richeyville woman, reported to state police she was providing home health care to a person in the housing development when she went outside to smoke a cigarette. She said Scott approached her and said he wanted his money, according to court documents.

“He didn’t care if it was $20 or $40, but she had five minutes to get it to him,” police wrote in the affidavit of probable cause filed in his case.

She said she told him she didn’t know what he was talking about. He put a lawn chair on the sidewalk, sat down and said that “she better get his money,” court documents said.

She went back inside and a woman knocked on the door. The resident’s granddaughter answered the door and reported the woman was yelling that the caregiver “better” give Scott money, court documents said.

The caregiver said she was busy and did not owe anyone money, but the granddaughter asked her to go outside because Scott was waiting, state police said.

Scott allegedly jumped out of the chair, slapped the right side of the woman’s head and knocked her over a porch railing. He then allegedly put a gun to the back of her head. The woman who knocked on the door said “She ain’t be worth killing,” and Scott removed the gun and slapped her again, according to police.

The alleged victim told police she does not know Scott but has seen him around South Hills Terrace. He is not permitted on the property, police said.

She reported she is “very concerned” that he may have someone “show up at her residence and shoot it up.” She said she is “terrified of him because she knows what he has done and what he is capable of doing,” court documents said.

Scott has frequent run-ins with the law, including criminal trespass charges and fleeing police. He is awaiting a preliminary hearing after he was charged in May with possession with intent to deliver and other charges. Police said they found him with suspected crack cocaine and 38 stamp bags of heroin on South Hills Terrace property. In December, he allegedly hit Redstone Township Police Chief John Brant while fleeing on a dirt bike.

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