(Photo Courtesy of the Cranberry Township Police Department)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) Twenty-one-year-old David Matthew Lisyuk of Aliquippa has been charged with possessing a weapon on school property because he was the one who was allegedly on the property of Seneca Valley School District which caused a threat to the district on September 15th, 2025 in the Haine Elementary/Middle School parking lot. According to the criminal complaint, several people reported a suspicious male riding a bike in Cranberry Township with a black pistol holstered in a bag on his chest. School district officials confirm in a letter that a resource officer saw someone riding a bike through the Haine Elementary/Middle School parking lot on September 15th, 2025. Lisyuk, who has no ties to Seneca Valley School District,was reportedly carrying a working, privately made 9mm pistol. He stated to police he was unaware he was on school property until he was going through the parking lot. Reports were also given to police that Lisyuk allegedly stopped at a business that was local in Cranberry Township. According to officials, he was wearing a mask and appeared to be carrying a holstered weapon across his chest, officials say. All buildings of the Seneca Valley School Disrict got put on secure status on September 15th, 2025 with increased presence of police out of an abundance of caution, even though no direct threat to the schools was seen.