Twenty-five-year-old man apprehended for shooting and killing a man in Aliquippa

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release today that twenty-five-year-old Taevaughn Goodnight of Baden was apprehended yesterday for being the suspect of a shooting in Aliquippa that night which killed twenty-four-year-old Gevod Tyson. This shooting occurred at approximately 9:05 p.m. at 1117 Wade Street. Goodnight and an unidentified twenty-one-year-old woman were reported to be involved in this incident and were stopped by the City of Aliquippa Police Department on Franklin Avenue. After interviews were held with the two suspects and witnesses, Goodnight admitted that he engaged in an altercation with Tyson and was present at the address on Wade Street. Goodnight shot once with his firearm which hit Tyson in his right thigh when Goodnight got involved in a physical altercation with Tyson. Tyson was pronounced dead a short time later at Heritage Valley Sewickley at 9:15 p.m. Meanwhile, Goodnight and the female suspect escaped the scene in his vehicle. However, Goodnight was still taken into custody by Aliquippa police and Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible approved a criminal homicide charge for him. Goodnight is now in the Beaver County Jail without bail and an investigation into this shooting is on-going.