"Target" of deadly cookout ambush jailed on assault charge
PITTSBURGH --A Pittsburgh man who may have been targeted in a cookoutambush that killed five people and an unborn child has been jailed on an unrelated assault charge.
Twenty-four-year-old Lamont Powell faces a preliminary hearing April 7 on charges he pulled a gun on a man and kicked him in the face during a custody dispute the man was having with Powell's sister In December. The alleged victim had fathered a child with 25-year-old Chanetta Powell.
Chanetta Powell, her unborn child, and four other adults were slain and her brother, Lamont, was critically injured during the cookout in Wilkinsburg on March 9.
Police haven't charged anyone in those shootings, but Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. says Lamont Powell may have been the intended target.
Powell doesn't have an attorney listed in court records.