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Allegheny County Police are actively searching for former Pitt football player Paris Ford for his connection to a shooting in Clairton, with a warrant out for his arrest.

Ford has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault, one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and one count of recklessly endangering another person. The two counts of aggravated assault and the count of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure are both felonies and the count of recklessly endangering another person is a misdemeanor.

The two counts of aggravated assault differ, in that the first one deals with Ford attempting to cause harm and the second on the use of a deadly weapon during that assault, which police allege occurred on March 15 on the 800 block of Third Street in Clairton, Pa.

Allegheny County 911 received a report of shots fired at 11:40 a.m. on Monday, March 15. Prior to police offers arriving on the scene, they were alerted to a black Nissan Rogue picking up three Black males and departing from the area.

Whitehall police identified the vehicle at 12:05 p.m., going northbound on Route 51. The officers put on their lights and sirens to signal the car to pull over for a traffic stop, but the driver of the Rogue did not do so, departing at a high speed. The Rogue stopped on the roadway near the intersections of Route 88 and Maytide Street, with three men exiting the vehicle. Whitehall police soon arrested two of the men who fled after a short pursuit on foot.

Police identified Ford as the third man exiting the vehicle based on surveillance video from the Fairhaven United Methodist Church. The footage allegedly shows Ford fleeing from the Rogue and carrying a black semi-automatic pistol in his right hand, before discarding the the weapon beneath a flight of stairs on the south side of the church. Detectives at the site found a Sarsilmaz B6C 9mm pistol, and a check of firearm records showed Ford as the owner.

The driver of the Rogue then sped off a second time, with Bethel Park Police in pursuit, before losing control and crashing at the intersection of Route 88 and Clifton Road. In the wrecked vehicle, a police detective found a prescription bottle with Ford’s name on it.

In the security camera footage from the church, Ford is seen wearing a distinctive outfit that matches video from the scene of the shooting.

did he get an agent and cant drop out?