High noon looked like it was set to arrive an hour early Tuesday in Millvale.
Millvale police Chief Timothy Komoroski took to social media Monday afternoon to give three unidentified people an ultimatum: Call his detectives by 11 a.m. the next day about a vehicle they “brutally damaged” on Sheridan Street — or he’d release a video to the media that captured the attack.
“I have no desire to humiliate anyone but it is my duty to hold those accountable for such heinous actions,” Komoroski wrote on Facebook around 4 p.m. Monday.
“There is also no doubt that the three females involved will be extremely humiliated if the video is made public,” he added. “One of the females will be even more humiliated than the other two — and she will know why.”
Komoroski did not elaborate.
The drama in Millvale, however, lasted less than an hour. Police called off the showdown before the work day even ended Monday.
“Everyone involved has been identified,” the department wrote in an update around 5 p.m. to the earlier Facebook post. “Actors involved are juveniles. We will not comment any further at this time. Thank you.”
In Komoroski’s original Facebook post, the chief said Millvale police were dispatched around 3 a.m. Sunday to a property on Sheridan Street near Maryland Avenue for reports of a damaged vehicle.
“The amount of damage to the vehicle will easily make this offense a felony,” the chief said in the post.
What triggered the strange online message — or its terse follow-up — remains unclear. Elected leaders and borough officials were mum Monday.
Komoroski and Mayor Brian Sproales did not respond to phone calls or emails seeking comment. Interim borough manager Joe Kypta, who was out of town Monday, declined comment.
The issue also didn’t appear to extend beyond Millvale, a postage-stamp-sized borough whose 3,000 residents live on less than a square mile of land alongside the Allegheny River.
An Allegheny County Police spokesman confirmed Monday that their officers were not involved in the incident.
