High school quarterback charged in connection with deadly shooting
17-year-old Bryson Koontz charged with homicide and other offenses
Updated: 12:43 PM EDT Aug 24, 2017
WEBVTT DAVID: LAST WEEK, ALLEGHENYCOUNTY POLICE DID CHARGE A16-YEAR-OLD IN THIS SHOOTING,BUT DID INDICATE THEN THAT MORECHARGES ARE POSSIBLE.OVERNIGHT, WE KNOW THAT ANOTHER17-YEAR-OLD IS CHARGED WITHHOMICIDE AS WELL.HE WOULD HAVE STARTED HIS SENIORYEAR AT CLAIRTON HIGH SCHOOLTHIS WEEK AND WAS A FORMERPLAYER ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM.BRYSON KOONTZ IS 17, A FORMERQUARTERBACK OF THE CLAIRTONFOOTBALL TEAM.TODAY, HE SITS IN THE ALLEGHENYCOUNTY JAIL FACING A MURDERCHARGE.POLICE SAY LAST TUESDAY, KOONTZAND 16-YEAR-OLD NATHAN LEE WENTTO BUY MARIJUANA FROM17-YEAR-OLD NATHAN ASSAD WHENTHEY ROBBED HIM, PUSHED HIM OUTOF THEIR CAR AND SPED OFF.ASSAD IMMEDIATELY HOPPED IN ACAR WITH A FRIEND AND FOLLOWEDA CAR AND BY THE SUSPECTS WASGIVEN THIS WAY.IT WAS FOLLOWED BY A CAR THEVICTIMS.POLICE SAY THEY THEY HANDEDAGAINST THE NATHAN LEE WHOTURNED AROUND AND FIRED THREESHOTS AT THE SCHOOL FOLLOWING --CAR FOLLOWING THEM.NATHAN ASSAD THAT NEXT MORNING.CHARMAINE PARKER: I THOUGHT ITWAS FIRECRACKERS, THEN I WASLIKE 'NO, THAT HAD TO BE A GUN.'DAVID NATHAN LEE WAS CHARGED: WITH MURDER THE MORNING AFTERTHE SHOOTING.BUT IT WAS AFTER A WEEK OFINVESTIGATION AND ANOTHERWITNESS, A BACK-SEAT PASSENGERIN THE CAR BOTH LEE AND KOONTZWERE IN, WHO GAVE MORE DETAILSABOUT KOONTZ'S ALLEGED ROLE INTHE SHOOTING.THE CLAIRTON CITY SCHOOLDISTRICT WOULDN'T COMMENTDIRECTLY ON KOONTZ, BUT SAIDIT'S SADDENED BY WHAT HAPPPENED.THEY'LL KEEP ALL FAMILIESINVOLVED IN OUR THOUGHTS AND WEWILL PRAY FOR THE ACTS OFVIOLENCE TO END.BOTH NATHAN LEE AND BRYSONKOONTZ ARE EXPECTED TO HAVETHEIR PRELIMINARY HEARINGS INTHE NEXT WEEK.WE'RE IN CLAIRTON, DAVID KAPLAN,
High school quarterback charged in connection with deadly shooting
17-year-old Bryson Koontz charged with homicide and other offenses
Updated: 12:43 PM EDT Aug 24, 2017
A 17-year-old boy, who online records show was a quarterback on the Clairton High School football team, is charged with homicide following a deadly shooting in Baldwin Borough.Bryson Koontz is the second suspect charged in connection with the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nathan Assad on Aug. 15.Investigators said Koontz and 16-year-old Nathan Lee were in a car during a deal to buy marijuana from Assad. During that deal, investigators said Lee robbed Assad.Police say that after the robbery, Koontz tried to drive away and Assad followed as the passenger in another car.Police say Lee used a gun given to him by Koontz to shoot at the car Assad was in and one of those bullets struck and killed him.Police say a third person in the car during the shooting came forward to help with the investigation, leading to the arrest of Koontz.Koontz would have begun his senior year at Clairton this week.
PITTSBURGH — A 17-year-old boy, who online records show was a quarterback on the Clairton High School football team, is charged with homicide following a deadly shooting in Baldwin Borough.
Bryson Koontz is the second suspect charged in connection with the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nathan Assad on Aug. 15.
Investigators said Koontz and 16-year-old Nathan Lee were in a car during a deal to buy marijuana from Assad. During that deal, investigators said Lee robbed Assad.
Police say that after the robbery, Koontz tried to drive away and Assad followed as the passenger in another car.
Police say Lee used a gun given to him by Koontz to shoot at the car Assad was in and one of those bullets struck and killed him.
Police say a third person in the car during the shooting came forward to help with the investigation, leading to the arrest of Koontz.
Koontz would have begun his senior year at Clairton this week.