Three Pagans Motorcycle Club members connected to shooting in White Oak that killed a McKeesport man; suspects charged

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(White Oak, PA) Court documents that were unsealed until they were obtained yesterday have now revealed more details about the fatal shooting that occurred on October 12th2025 outside a Wendy’s located in White Oak of Allegheny County that killed thirty-three-year-old Kenneth Hayman of McKeesport that day. According to Allegheny County police, Hayman was on his motorcycle at Jacks Run Road and Lincoln Way the afternoon of October 12th2025 when a Chevrolet Silverado pulled up behind him and three men got out. Police confirm that gunfire was exchanged with one of the men in the truck as Hayman tried to run before Hayman was shot multiple times. Hayman was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Charges were announced on Friday against three men, who are members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, and investigators wrote that they were looking to retaliate against Hayman, a member of the War Dogs Motorcycle Club, who police note was involved in a fight with another Pagans Motorcycle Club member recently in Washington County. The truck owner and the president of the Irwin chapter of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, twenty-seven-year-old Victor Cruz, along with the shooter, thirty-three-year-old Jacob Baker and thirty-six-year-old Albert Renchko, who were both in Cruz’s truck at the time of the shooting, all received charges. All three men are charged with aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy and Baker has an additional charge of homicide. Cruz was in jail, but he was released while he awaits his appearance in court, but Baker and Renchko remain in custody.