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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(McKees Rocks, PA) According to the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office, twenty-four-year-old Justin Daugherty of McKees Rocks was taken into custody in Stowe Township today. Daugherty is facing multiple charges including kidnapping of a minor and aggravated assault on an unborn child after being accused of beating his pregnant ex-girlfriend and kidnapping her and a one-year-old child after two people attempted to rescue her from a home. Police met with the ex-girlfriend of Daugherty on August 27th, 2025, when shots were fired in an apartment in McKees Rocks and she told authorities that she had been physically assaulted and restrained by Daugherty, and three days prior, he showed up at her apartment after being released from jail for physically assaulting her. Daugherty was allegedly angry the victim had a new boyfriend and told her, “You’re not going outside, you’re not going to work, you’re not going nowhere.” The ex-girlfriend of Daugherty also stated that Daugherty hit her in the abdomen and continued to do so for days. This happened when the victim was pregnant with her new boyfriend. According to a complaint, the new boyfriend and another man attempted to rescue the victim, but Daugherty shot at them. The other man was taken to a hospital where he was treated after getting hit by the gunfire. Daugherty allegedly grabbed the victim’s keys and forced her and a 1-year-old child into a car after firing gunshots and allegedly drove them around the area and continued to make threatening comments. The same complaint also notes that while this driving occurred, the ex-girlfriend of Daugherty secretly called dispatchers who were able to inform police and trace the vehicle she was in. A report confirms that Daugherty eventually released the one-year-old child and his ex-girlfriend, told her to go back to her apartment and added she needed to “say the right things” to police. Detectives went into a home and took Daugherty into custody after he allegedly attempted to flee out a window, but retreated when he saw a K9.