BRIAN ST. JOHN III
LOCK HAVEN After weeks of continuances, a preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Brian St. John III, 19, of Lock Haven, who is charged with criminal homicide in the shooting death of Jakob L. Haines, 21, of Beech Creek.
The in-person hearing will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 25, in the large courtroom of the Clinton County Courthouse.
A limit of 50 people will be allowed in the courtroom for the hearing and COVID guidelines will be followed.
St. John has been held without bail in the Clinton County Correctional Facility since the fatal shooting on Feb. 26, 2021 at the St. John home, 330 Brewery Hollow Road.
State troopers take Nakoma Ross off to jail following arraignment. PHILIP A.HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
STEAM VALLEY Through the viewfinder of his firearm scope, Nakoma Justin Ross had a clear view of a state trooper.
Ross, 21, was sitting on a couch in his home at 46 Ross St., having a conversation online with his father during Thursday’s lengthy standoff, according to court records. The father-son’s conversation were part of an apparent ongoing effort to try to resolve the standoff peacefully.
Court records did not say where the father was during the Facebook video chat. The father could see his son sitting on the furniture, but the son soon “disabled the video portion of the chat,” Trooper Jamesan Keeler, wrote in an affidavit.
State troopers take Nakoma Ross off to jail following arraignment. PHILIP A.HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
At his arraignment Thursday night, Nakoma Justin Ross, 21, was denied bail and ordered directly to the Lycoming County Prison. From his Cogan House Township home at 46 Ross St, Ross is alleged to have fired two shots in the direction of four state troopers about 12:45 p.m Thursday. The troopers were investigating a shooting in which Ross had allegedly fired multiple rounds into the home of Anthony Hainey, a neighbor who lives about 300 to 500 yards away, about 11:15 a m. “One bullet penetrated a window on the west side of Hainey’s home while another penetrated the siding, again on the west side of the house” Trooper Jamesan Keeler said in an affidavit.