(Photo Courtesy of the New Castle Police Department)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Castle, PA) An armed and dangerous suspect is now in jail this week after he was connected to a shooting incident that happened in New Castle on Sunday. A male victim was found by police at 1014 Butler Avenue who stated that a man shot him with a rifle there. Police were actively searching for twenty-nine-year-old Alexander Lee Minnich, who escaped the area. The belief at that time that was Minnich was inside the house possibly. No response or success was achieved by police after they surrounded the residence and tried to get Minnich out. The Lawrence County Critical Incident Response Team went to the place because of the possibility that Minnich was armed and barricaded there. Minnich was not seen by the Lawrence County Critical Incident Response Team. Minnich got taken into custody by the New Castle Police Department and has charges including attempted homicide.