Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

From the October 2, 2006 Beaver County Times:

LIQUIPPA - A shooting on Irwin Street in Aliquippa Sunday afternoon had an unexpected result for city police - the victim was a man they had been searching for since a May homicide on Franklin Avenue.

Michael W. Ross, 21, was shot in the leg Sunday after he entered a home at 1221 Irwin St. around 4:15 p.m. and demanded money from residents, said Sgt. Don Couch, city police detective. Ross got some cash and fled, chased by Willie Jordan Jr., a resident of the Irwin Street home, who was also armed.

Couch said gunfire erupted between the two on Irwin Street. Ross, who was struck in the leg, made it around the corner to Maratta Road, where he was found by city police.

Couch said Ross initially gave the officer a false name; he was also wearing a bulletproof vest.

But Ross, who has given police addresses at Linmar Terrace in Aliquippa and on University Drive in Center Township, had been identified by the time he was taken to Aliquippa Community Hospital and then flown to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh.

"He's being treated for the gunshot wound there, but he's under the watch of the Beaver County sheriff's deputies," Couch said. "He may be there for another day or two before we get him back here."

Police and Beaver County detectives are willing to wait - they've been looking for Ross since the May 11 killing of Richard Jackson Jr., 27, who was gunned down in a vacant building at 276 Franklin Ave. Jackson's cousin, Ramon Campbell, 28, was wounded in that shooting.

Ross has already been charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and firearms violations in connection with the May 11 shooting. Couch said additional charges in connection with Sunday's incident will likely be filed today.

Couch said Jordan, no age given, fled immediately after Sunday's shootout, apparently to Pittsburgh International Airport where he boarded a flight to Georgia. Police are still investigating his role in the shootout, and were scheduled to serve a search warrant at the Irwin Street home Sunday night.