Gunfire at North Versailles custody exchange injures 2, including 6-year-old girl

A custody exchange in the North Versailles police parking lot ended in gunfire Wednesday, leaving one man and a 6-year-old girl wounded, according to police.

Shawn Coles-Lundy, 29, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and five counts of reckless endangerment after police said he fired into an SUV with three children inside.

The shooting happened in the parking lot of the North Versailles municipal building around 8 p.m., Allegheny County Police Lt. Venerando Costa said in a statement.

Police said they stopped one of the vehicles involved a short distance away on the Patton Street Bridge. Five people – two adults and three children – were inside.

A 29-year-old woman said she and her 31-year-old boyfriend, along with her 14-year-old daughter and 11-month-old son, were in the parking lot to pick up her 6-year-old daughter from her weekly two-hour visit with her father, Coles-Lundy.

The woman said she had just helped the 6-year-old into the backseat with the other two children when she saw Coles-Lundy in front of the car and then heard gunfire, according to the complaint.

The 14-year-old girl, who was sitting between the 6-year-old and the infant in the backseat said she saw Coles-Lundy with a gun and then heard shots, according to the complaint. She said she ducked down and tried to cover the other two children when the shooting started.

The teenager told police Coles-Lundy was the one she saw with a gun, according to the complaint.

The 31-year-old man was shot multiple times in the legs, and the 6-year-old was struck in the hip with a bullet fragment, police said.

Coles-Lundy remained in Allegheny County Jail on Thursday, unable to post bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 20. Court records did not list a defense attorney.