Tarentum man sentenced to 3 to 6 years in prison for New Kensington shooting

A Tarentum man was sentenced Friday to three to six years in a state prison after pleading guilty to shooting four times at a woman’s moving vehicle in New Kensington.

Sean Talley, 22, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, a weapons violation, receiving stolen property and simple assault in three cases.

An attempted homicide charge in the shooting case and several others were dismissed by prosecutors as part of a plea agreement.

Police said Talley and a woman argued at the Valero gas station at Seventh Street and Constitution Boulevard in January 2020. He followed as she left and fired four shots at her moving vehicle at Walnut Street and Kenneth Avenue, according to court papers.

One bullet hit the back of the passenger seat in her car, police said.

Surveillance footage of the 10 a.m. shooting helped police identify Talley as the suspect. He is a convicted felon and was not allowed to have a gun.

The simple assault charge stemmed from an incident at the Arnold Stop N Go on October 2019 when police said he spit in the face of a clerk there. The receiving stolen property charge is connected to a stolen handgun he was found in possession of in January 2020 in New Kensington.

Talley was ordered to pay $500 in restitution to the woman at whom he shot.

He was indicted in April 2021 on a charge of firearm possession as a convicted felon. Talley was sentenced in February to about four years in a federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to federal court records.

A federal judge ordered that sentence be served consecutively to any sentence imposed in the state cases.

However, Judge Scott Mears on Friday noted in his order that three- to six-year sentence can be served concurrently to the federal sentence.

“My understanding is I am saying that in the order, but the feds are going to treat this the way they treat this,” he told Talley. “I’m not making any representations to you other than I’m willing to say I have no problem with it running concurrently.”