(Photo from the scene of a shooting at the Monaca Wal-mart on Sunday night. Photo taken by Keith Walsh)

(Monaca, Pa.) Pa State Police in Beaver are investigating after 48-year-old Kenneth Vinyard died after he was trying to render aid to 20-year-old Rashaun Smith who was shot in the abdomen by Yeshua Bratcher in the Monaca Wal-mart parking lot in Center Twp. around 6:30 PM on Sunday night.
Joel Sansone an attorney for the family says that Vineyard was pushed and killed by an off-duty police officer while trying to help the shooting victim.
State Police are handling the investigation of Vinyard’s death and Center Twp. Police are handling the investigation of the shooting.
Bratcher was charged yesterday with a total of nine charges, including criminal homicide.