Checking the status of the defendants involved in a shooting in July at the Days Inn in Burrell Township, three of the charges against 27-year-old David Lee McGinnis of Bolivar have been withdrawn, and one remains in Indiana County. The other defendant in the shooting, 30-year-old Justin Libengood of Somerset, still is charged with all of the original offenses.
Police say Libengood tried to rob McGinnis 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.
Libengood is charged with aggravated assault, prohibited possession of a firearm, attempted robbery, and criminal discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure. He’ll be formally arraigned on November 26th.
A woman who was in the hotel room during the incident, Matraca Vrana of Northern Cambria, is also scheduled for formal arraignment on November 26th on drug charges.
McGinnis had been charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, along with prohibited possession of a firearm, recklessly endangering another person, and possession with intent to deliver. After a preliminary hearing this month, only the possession offense remains.
McGinnis is also facing charges in other cases in Westmoreland County. He’s charged with possession with intent to deliver in a case originating in July of 2017. He has a motions hearing and a bond revocation hearing scheduled on Friday in another case from June of this year in which he’s charged with three counts of possession with intent to deliver and six counts of possession. And his mother, Denise, is still facing charges 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.
