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WEBVTT WS 4 REPORTER KATELYN SYKES WITH AN ABOUT EARN WHO PUT A LOT OF PEOPLE IN DANGER.KATELYN: WE WERE HERE AS ONE OFTHE MEN INVOLVED WAS TAKEN TO JAIL. HE'S FACING NEARLY TWO DOZEN CHARGES WHILE STATE POLICE CONTINUE TO SEARCH FOR ANOTHER SUSPECSUSPECT. IN CUFFS AND OPERATE WAY TO JAIL. HE'S NOT SAYING MUCH AFTER HIS ARREST, ONLY GROWING MORE AGITATED BY MY QUESTIONS.>> IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY TO THE VICTIMS.>> HE SPENT THE NIGHT IN THE FAYETTE COUNTY BOOKING CENTER AFTER HE WAS PICKED UP BY STATEPOLICE AT THIS SHEETZ LAST NIGHT. HE'S ACCUSED OF STEALING SEVERAL CARS. ONE OF WHICH WAS SMASHED INTO THIS HOME ON PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CAUSING A FIRE. STATE POLICE TELL US AFTER THE CRASH, BEERS TOOK OFF ONLY TO STEEL ANOTHER VEHICLE AND TRIEDTO STEAL A THIRD. POLICE ISSUED A BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND IT WAS AN EMPLOYEE AT SHEETZ FOUND A MAN MATCHING THAT DESCRIPTION SUSPECTING SUSPICIOUSLY. AND WHO HAD INJURIES CONSISTENTWITH A VEHICLE CRASH. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AND POLICE TELL US THEY FOUND A LOADED GUN. DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, AS WELL AS A CHECKBOOK THAT BELONGED TO ONE OF THE CAR THEFT VICTIMS INHIS POCKET. POLICE BELIEVE A SECOND PERSON WAS INVOLVED, BUT HE WOULD NOT ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ACCOMPLICE.WHO WAS WITH YOU?>> DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE HE IS?>> OR SHE?>> NO.>> POLICE TELL US THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. A PRELIMINARY HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR THE 17THMENT

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Seeing a customer with blood on his hands at the food kiosk, a quick-thinking Sheetz employee stalled the man's order Tuesday night. Police said Matthew Beers, 22, is a suspect in a fiery crash involving a stolen truck that hit a nearby house and burst into flames. State police had been searching the area for any sign of the people who fled from the burning pickup truck after it slammed into a house on Pleasant Valley Road in Bullskin Township, Fayette County. Authorities said the vehicle went across a field, through a fence and into a house, damaging the porch of the home. “We were loading the kids in the car to leave. A guy started flipping through the field, wrecked into our house, the truck caught on fire. It was a stolen vehicle and the guys fled with a loaded gun," said Jenny Johnson. “It just missed us by two or three feet or he would have crashed into our car and hurt our kids," said Johnson. At one point, gunfire was heard and a Pittsburgh's Action News 4 crew was ordered to leave the search area while police drew their weapons and continued to look for the suspects. McCauley Jones lives a half mile from the crash scene and witnessed the aftermath as the truck was on fire. “Big flames engulfing the porch of the house and I was waiting for the house itself to catch but I believe the only thing on fire was the truck," said Jones. One of his family members filmed the crash with his iPhone and shared the video with Pittsburgh's Action News 4. "My house is going to burn down. Hurry up!" a woman is heard screaming on the video. Flames can be seen shooting from the truck near the house with its porch crumbling. “We pulled up right beside it and the truck was right on fire right on the porch of that house," said Jones. Eventually, Beers was found inside the Sheetz convenience store on Memorial Boulevard. A cashier said Beers had blood on his hands as he used a self-order kiosk and paid for his food. She said she stalled him by first saying she needed to get napkins, then claiming his mozzarella sticks fell on the ground and would have to be replaced. A source told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 Beers was paying for a lottery ticket at the lottery machine when troopers arrived and made the arrest. State police in Uniontown said they have identified a person of interest as a possible second suspect. They say there is no immediate threat to the citizens in the area of Bullskin Township. The investigation continues.