One Bound Over in City December Shooting
LOCK HAVEN — One person has been fingered as the alleged shooter in a Dec. 27 daylight shooting on West Park Street in Lock Haven.
Central Court was the site, district judge Frank Mills presiding, on preliminary hearings Tuesday for three defendants in the shooting of James Davis, 26, of Lock Haven.
Jaermel Wilson, 35, of 35 Barnes St., Hazleton, had his case continued by the court but he did testify about the actions of two co-defendants, Stephanie Collins, 24, of Lock Haven, and Jamal “Mel” Vasquez, no known address.
Wilson said the three had gone looking for Davis because the latter allegedly had been involved in breaking Vasquez’s leg during a robbery earlier in December.
Spotting Davis on Park Street, Wilson said, Collins drove the truck around the block and Vasquez, his leg in a cast, got out and used a handgun to fire three or four shots at Davis.
The three sped off and were later taken into custody along Route 220 east of Lock Haven. Davis was taken to the Geisinger Medical Center for treatment of gunshot wounds and later released.
After the hearing Vasquez was ordered bound over for court on attempted homicide and related charges while Mills dismissed the charges against Collins, stating her release did not preclude the prosecution from later re-filing charges or lodging new ones.
Vasquez was returned to the Clinton County Correctional Facility, as was Wilson; both have been inmates there since their arrest. Collins was ordered to be released.
