(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Brighton, PA) Twenty-six-year-old Benjamin Sanderbeck was taken to the Beaver County Jail in connection with a shooting that occurred on Tuesday in New Brighton.

At approximately 2:45 p.m. that day, New Brighton Area Police responded to the area of 5th Avenue and 7th Street for the report of a motorist’s vehicle being hit by gunfire.

Officers determined that a vehicle was traveling south on 5th Avenue was hit by a single gun shot, that gun shot passed through the vehicle’s passenger compartment off the vehicle, and the shot came from a passing vehicle.

This caused an amount of damages that was undetermined.

There were no reported injuries.

Members of both New Brighton Police and the Pennsylvania State Police New Castle Barracks executed a search warrant yesterday on the suspected vehicle at Sanderbeck’s residence on Newport Road in Wampum.

A subsequent interview led police to file charges against Sanderbeck for criminal mischief, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, propulsion of missiles into an occupied vehicle, and reckless endangering of another person.