State police say the second suspect in a shooting July 1st at the Days Inn in Burrell Township is in the Indiana County Jail after being taken into custody Sunday in Jeannette, Westmoreland County.
30-year-old Justin Edwin Libengood of Somerset is charged with four felony offenses: aggravated assault, prohibited possession of a firearm, attempted robbery, and criminal discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure. District Judge Susanne Steffee set bond for Libengood at $250,000 and scheduled a preliminary hearing for July 23rd at 1 PM.
Police say Libengood tried to rob David Lee McGinnis of Bolivar inside a hotel room and pulled a handgun. The two fought and a shot was fired, with McGinnis suffering a gunshot wound to the back of his neck.
McGinnis is also locked up at the Indiana County Jail after being taken into custody last week on charges of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, along with prohibited possession of a firearm, recklessly endangering another person, and possession with intent to deliver. He was denied bond based on his being an extreme risk of flight to avoid charges, and is also scheduled for a preliminary hearing before Judge Steffee on July 23rd at 1 o’clock.
A third suspect, 26-year-old Matraca Lynn Vrana of Northern Cambria was arrested in the room where the shooting occurred. She is also scheduled before Judge Steffee on the 23rd at 1 o’clock on charges of possession with intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Finally, in this complicated case, David McGinnis’s mother, Denise McGinnis, is awaiting court action in Westmoreland County for allegedly trying to move raw heroin and marijuana at the direction of her son while he was a fugitive, in order to avoid the seizure of the drugs.
