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Suspect in house shooting arrested in Ohio

TWINSBURG, Ohio — The manhunt for a Pittsburgh man wanted on a felony warrant for allegedly shooting up a house in Butler ended Tuesday night when he was arrested in eastern Ohio.

Police in Twinsburg caught 30-year-old Joshua McKenzie following a traffic stop near a convenience store where officers were called about 9:25 p.m. for a reported theft, authorities said.

He is in the Summit County Jail on the Butler police warrant. Twinsburg police also filed their own charges after they allegedly found him with suspected marijuana and an open bottle of alcohol.

When officers entered McKenzie’s name into the National Crime Information Center network, they learned he was wanted on the warrant here, said Butler police Capt. David Dalcamo.

City police allege McKenzie about 7:40 p.m. Nov. 17 fired eight rounds from a 9 mm pistol into a house at 313 Wagner Ave., occupied by Rainy Rose and Ryan Mullen, neither who live there.

None of the shots hit anyone, but Rose, 30, was struck by flying glass. She was treated at Butler Memorial Hospital for a minor cut and released.

Dalcamo would not discuss a motive but according to charging documents, McKenzie possibly went looking for the 29-year-old Mullen, believing he had tried to his rob his girlfriend in 2013.

The defendant’s girlfriend also lives in the 300 block of Wagner Avenue.

McKenzie, a felon, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and other felonies and misdemeanors.

Dalcamo said he did not know why McKenzie fled to Twinsburg, a city between Cleveland and Akron. He also did not know how McKenzie got there.

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