Police Investigate Shots Fired Outside South Hills Village

BETHEL PARK, Pa. — A large police response Tuesday after reports of shots fired and an assault outside South Hills Village Mall. Bethel Park Police said they were called to the AMC Theatre at 4 p.m. Officers said they found a man who had been assaulted and evidence of an unknown number of shots fired when they arrived. No injuries were reported. Allegheny County Police said a juvenile boy was arguing with a group of people who were traveling in a vehicle outside of the theater. That vehicle was later determined to be stolen. As the situation escalated, police said the boy struck a second vehicle and caused damage to it. The driver of that second vehicle got out and began yelling at the boy. That confrontation turned physical. As the fight broke out, the driver of the first vehicle, an 18-year-old man, fired shots in the direction of the second driver. The boy involved in the fight then got into the vehicle from which shots had come and fled the scene. The vehicle was found traveling through Mt. Lebanon and Dormont. Allegheny County Police said the people inside that stolen vehicle got out and ran from it along Route 19 in Dormont. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the Allegheny County Police Tip Line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Tips can be left anonymously.