PITTSBURG, Kan. — A person taken into custody Tuesday on tried homicide costs associated to a capturing incident Sunday evening in Pittsburg bailed out of jail earlier than a parole violation was filed and needed to be rearrested.
The Pittsburg Police Division mentioned in a information launch that Elijah A. Shead, 41, was being held on the Crawford County Jail with out bond on Thursday.
Shead is going through costs of tried second-degree homicide, possession of a firearm by a felon, legal discharge of a firearm and felony property harm in reference to a capturing incident shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday at Jefferson and Elm streets in Pittsburg.
Police mentioned the victims within the capturing reported that they first observed Shead on a motorbike within the 300 block of East Centennial Drive and that he started following their automobile. At Jefferson and Elm, he pulled round them and received off the motorbike and fired three rounds at them.
Each the suspect and the victims fled the scene of the capturing, with the victims’ automobile subsequently turning into disabled close to George Nettles Elementary College.
Police started in search of Shead within the wake of the capturing however didn’t find him till Tuesday when he was taken into custody for questioning and finally booked on the tried homicide costs. His bond was set at $50,000, which he posted the identical day and was launched earlier than a probation violation criticism was filed.
Deputies took him again into custody on Wednesday.
The names of the victims within the capturing incident haven’t been launched and police haven’t mentioned what the suspect’s motive was in firing the photographs at them.