The suspect in the McKeesport police shooting earlier this week allegedly threatened to go on 'killing spree' weeks earlier.
According to records obtained by the Tribune Review, Florida authorities contacted Allegheny County on January 13, alerting them that Johnathan Morris was making threats to a Pensacola credit union.
The former mayor of McKeesport, State Senator Jim Brewster, telling Marty Griffin on the Big K Morning Show he wants to know why this incident went unreported until now.
“I’m going to bring it to the mayor’s attention and the police chief’s attention very soon here,” said Brewster. “Whether they knew about this or not, I don’t know. I’m going to share this information and see if we can’t figure out what they knew and when they knew it.”
Morris is charged with homicide, attempted homicide, aggravated assault, assault of a law enforcement officer and related charges stemming from the McKeesport shooting.
Morris is accused of shooting and killing McKeesport Officer Sean Sluganski and wounding Officer Charles Thomas.