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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A first degree-murder charge was dropped yesterday at the Beaver County Courtroom for twenty-five-year-old Taevaughn Goodnight of Baden after he was apprehended for shooting and killing twenty-four-year-old Gevod Tyson in Aliquippa. Tyson died at Heritage Valley Sewickley on October 14th, 2025 after a dispute with Goodnight that night. Goodnight shot Tyson in his right thigh once with a firearm during a physical altercation with Tyson on Wade Street. Police said the two men were fighting over a custody dispute with a woman. Goodnight will be able to get out of jail on bond without the first-degree murder charge but his trial is currently set for sometime in May of 2026. Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible confirms that this is a case of the victim and defendant knowing each other and added that there is no threat to the community.