(New Brighton, Pa.) New Brighton Area Police have charged 29-year-old Lonnie Nalepa from Baden in connection with a domestic incident that happened at Brighton Manor Apartments in New Brighton last Saturday morning, July 3, 2021, around 8:30 AM.

According to reports New Brighton Police Officers approached the rear of the building when they saw Nalepa hiding behind a wall in the apartment and he refused to come out. He fired one round at a New Brighton Officer leading him to take cover. He Eventually surrendered to police inside the apartment.

Nalepa also shot an unidentified woman in the chest. She was air lifted to UPMC Presby in Pittsburgh and her condition is not known at this time.

After securing the scene and searching the apartment police found a shattered window and bullet hole in a curtain, a handgun that was registered to someone who is deceased, a shell casing on the floor, a bag of crack cocaine, a scale and multiple cell phones.

Nalepa is charged with one count of criminal homicide of a police officer, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of aggravated assault, three counts of reckless endangerment, one count of prohibited possession of a fire arm, and one count of possession with intent to deliver.

Nalepa was convicted of a felony in 2014 which prohibited him from owning a fire arm.

He was placed in the Beaver County Jail on $150,000 Bond