Testifying against Blystone was Tiana Gillespie, who was seated behind Gonzalez Carril in his vehicle. He had also recently purchased a concealed carry permit.” “We located an extended magazine under the driver’s seat of the vehicle Carlos was driving,” Schneider said. He said Gonzalez Carril turned over a 9 mm pistol. Schneider said the 26 shell casings were found between Gonzalez Carril’s vehicle and the scene.
“Carlos appeared in a panic, and he was very upset,” Schneider said. Trooper Phillip Schneider said Gonzalez Carril left the scene and parked at Sheetz until he could speak with troopers. “He threw a coin at the car, but I don’t think it hit the car.” “Damian just wanted to fight,” Ehrman said. “I pulled mine out.”Įhrman said he and his friends got in their SUV, and he said as they were leaving, Blystone threw a coin at Gonzalez Carril’s car. “When we got out, (Gonzalez Carril) had his gun out like this,” said Ehrman, gesturing as if resting a pistol’s barrel on the inside panel beneath the window. He said after leaving the store, the juvenile pulled their SUV alongside Gonzalez Carril’s vehicle, and he and Blystone exited the vehicle. “When we were trying to leave, (the car) just started spinning out.”ĭuring cross-examination, Ehrman admitted that before the shots were fired, he, Blystone and the boy had an argument inside the Rural King store. “They just started coming in,” Ehrman said of the gunshots. All three were treated and released from a hospital. He said Blystone was hit in the back of the head twice and in the lower abdomen once, and another person, who has been identified as a juvenile boy, was hit once in the back of the head.
An interpreter relayed information to Gonzalez Carril throughout the hearing.Įhrman said he was grazed by one of the rounds he assumed were fired by Gonzalez Carril. Ehrman, who said he was sitting in the vehicle’s rear, passenger-side seat behind Blystone when the shots were fired. Testifying against Gonzalez Carril was one of his alleged victims, Ryan P. “The source of all of these are from those people who are aligned with someone charged with attempted homicide for shooting and injuring my client.”ĭespite arguments by both attorneys, both men will continue to be held in Butler County Prison without bond, per Stoughton’s renewed judgment. “All of these, at this point, are allegations,” Wyland said. The new charge is a third-degree felony as opposed to a felony of the first degree.īlystone’s attorney, Jacob Wyland, said the case against his client has holes in it, particularly relating to his alleged carrying of a gun.
Blystone, 19, of Butler, pleaded not guilty to charges of felony terroristic threats and carrying a gun without a permit, as well as misdemeanor simple assault, reckless endangerment, marijuana possession and drug paraphernalia possession.īefore the hearing, Beichner revised the felony gun charge from a higher-graded felony count of a person not permitted to carry, which would have assumed Blystone had been convicted of a previous offense prohibiting him from owning a gun. “I don’t think he should have been charged.”Īfter Gonzalez Carril’s hearing, the alleged instigator, Damian J. “Carlos, I feel horrible, he’s in this position,” Bishop said. Assistant District Attorney David Beichner also added three counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.ĭuring the hearing a state police trooper said 26 shell casings were found at the scene.įollowing the hearing, Gonzalez Carril’s attorney, Adam Bishop, said that moving forward, he feels good about arguing his client acted in self-defense. The alleged shooter, Carlos Gonzalez Carril, 24, of Butler, pleaded not guilty to three charges each of attempted homicide, felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor simple assault, one for each alleged victim. Stoughton moved forward all charges in both cases to Butler County Common Pleas Court. 18 shooting at the Clearview Mall in Center Township will remain behind bars as their cases head toward trials in county court.īoth men appeared before District Judge Lewis Stoughton in preliminary hearings conducted separately, but back-to-back. 18.ĬHICORA - As of Tuesday, both men charged in the aftermath of the Jan. Blystone are suspects in a shooting at Clearview Mall on Jan.
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