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.
Four-hour police standoff in Lycoming County ends without injury; one man is in jail
Updated 10:52 PM;
Today 10:51 PM
State troopers escort Nakoma Justin Ross into a district judge’s office in Lycoming County where he was arraigned Thursday on charges from a four-hour standoff during which a bullet struck a cruiser.
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TROUT RUN – An approximate four-hour standoff with police in rural northern Lycoming County has ended without anyone being injured and one man in jail.
Nakoma Justin Ross, 21, surrendered about 4:40 p.m. Thursday and later was committed to the county prison without bail as a danger to the community.
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.