(File Photo: Source for Photo: A fan is carted off the field at PNC Park after falling out of the stands during the seventh inning of a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Brentwood Borough, PA) Kavan Markwood, the fan who fell from the stands of PNC Park onto the field on April 30th, 2025 during a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs that night, is now facing charges for nighttime prowling in Brentwood, Pennsylvania. According to court documents, Brentwood Police said that Markwood has been charged with one misdemeanor count of loitering and prowling at nighttime after allegedly “attempting to gain entry” to his ex-girlfriend’s home by knocking on the door around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday. Police also confirm that footage from the doorbell camera showed Markwood“forcefully knocking on the front door” and then exiting the area, and officers one street away spotted him. Markwood also made an appearance during a preliminary hearing on Monday for his friend, Ethan Kirkwood, because charges were also given to Kirkwood, after according to police, Kirkwood told them he bought drinks for Markwood while the two were at the game together between the Pirates and the Cubs on April 30th, 2025. These drinks included alcohol and Markwood was twenty years old at the time of the incident when he fell from the stands of PNC Park onto the field on April 30th, 2025, which is under the age of twenty one years old, when people are legally allowed to drink alcohol. Kirkwood was facing two counts of misdemeanor charges of furnishing or selling alcohol to a minor, but the lawyer of Kirkwood, William Stockey, confirmed that one charge got waived, so one misdemeanor charge is left. Doctors told KDKA that Markwood sustained serious injuries to his brain, lungs, spine, skull and both sides of his ribs from when he fell onto the field of PNC Park from the stands on April 30th, 2025 during the game between the Pirates and the Cubs that night.