Uniontown man found not guilty in American Legion shooting
The man accused of firing a shot at the American Legion in Dunbar Township and of pointing a gun at a trooper was found not guilty of all his charges by a jury last week.
According to court documents, a jury found Daylon Matthew McLee, 27, of Uniontown not guilty on the charges of aggravated assault, prohibited possession of a firearm, receiving stolen property, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. Fayette County President Judge John F. Wagner Jr. found McLee not guilty on the summary charge of disorderly conduct following his trial last Wednesday.
McLee was accused of firing a gun at Trooper Adam Sikorski during an incident on March 20, 2016, at the American Legion.
Sikorski testified at McLee’s preliminary hearing that he was dispatched to a large fight of 20 or more people at the American Legion post’s parking lot when a shot was fired when he was talking to a witness.
He testified that he chased after the man with his gun drawn, yelling to drop the gun when the man stopped and stared at Sikorski, who fired two shots at the man, who ran away to an SUV.
Also at the preliminary hearing, McLee’s attorney, Matthew Ness, questioned Sikorski, who said the man was not well illuminated when he stopped to look at him. The trooper also testified that he did not see McLee fire the shot and had not seen McLee before.
McLee told police that someone known to him as “Oshea” had the gun, but he did not see who fired the shot. He said he took the gun from “Oshea” because others were trying to get it from him.
Dustyn James Grogan and Brian Keith Craggette, the other men charged in the same incident, both pleaded guilty to firearms charges.
Grogan is serving four to eight years at SCI-Mercer and Craggette is serving 18 months of intermediate punishment with six months of house arrest on electronic monitoring.
In the wake of the shooting, that American Legion post was shut down in May but was granted permission to reopen its doors in July.