Police charge 2 in shooting outside Greensburg bar, still seeking 1 suspect

Greensburg police used witness interviews and video provided by the Rialto Bar and the Palace Theatre to piece together evidence to charge two men in a downtown shooting Jan. 30 that injured two people.

Evan R. Curley, 23, of Greensburg and Stevin “Twogunz” German, 27, of Uniontown face attempted homicide and related charges in connection with the shooting outside the West Otterman Street bar as it was closing just before 2 a.m.

Curley was arraigned Wednesday and ordered held without bond in the county jail after District Judge Chris Flanigan deemed him a “danger to the community” and a flight risk, according to court documents.

Flanigan arraigned Curley by video as he sat in a sheriff’s department SUV outside her office, which is about 30 yards from where investigators said the shooting took place. Deputies said Curley had gunshot wounds to both legs, which prevented him from being moved into the magistrate’s office.

Curley was treated at Forbes Hospital in Monroeville after the shooting, police said.

German is accused of firing seven shots from a 9 mm handgun outside the bar as Curley left on the North Pennsylvania Avenue side, according to court papers filed by city Detective Justin Scalzo.

Police are still looking for German.

According to court documents, Curley also fired two rounds from a 9 mm handgun during the shootout. One bullet struck a bystander, who was walking with a cane, in his buttocks. He was treated at Excela Health Westmoreland hospital in Greensburg, police said.

When officers responded to reports of gunfire outside the bar, they found Curley with two gunshot wounds, Scalzo said. Curley directed police to his handgun laying in the snow about five feet away, police said.

Curley told police he had been in an argument with a man he didn’t identify earlier in the evening. He told police he left the bar and walked to his car to get a gun, Scalzo wrote in court documents.

Curley returned to the bar, then left and was walking toward West Otterman Street when he was confronted and shot, Scalzo said.

“Curley said he drew his weapon and believes he fired one or two rounds,” Scalzo wrote.

The other man who was injured told officers he had just left the bar and saw another man pull a gun from under his clothing and point it at Curley. He told officers he tried to “quickly” get out of the way but was shot in the exchange of gunfire, Scalzo wrote.

According to police reports, video from the bar showed that Curley and the man police allege is German argued twice, once at 12:30 a.m. and again at 1:48 a.m.

Police did not say what the pair was arguing about.

After the shooting, police said they detained three people from Fayette County for questioning. Police reported one of them said he could only identify the shooter as “Steven,” according to police.

Police said video surveillance taken from cameras outside the Palace showed a Black male in a plaid shirt with a coat running north on Pennsylvania Avenue “immediately after the shooting.”

City police sent photographs to Uniontown police who assisted with the investigation. One woman who was there identified German as the “shooter in the plaid shirt with the gun who shot Curley.”

Both men are charged with attempted homicide and reckless endangerment and two counts of aggravated assault.

German also is charged with carrying a handgun without a license.

According to online dockets, German was admitted to a first-time offender program in November in Fayette County after his June 14 arrest by state police in South Union Township for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and public drunkenness.

Curley did not have an attorney listed in court documents. He has a hearing scheduled Feb. 17.

Police said German is from the Uniontown area and has been transient over the past several weeks. He is to be considered armed and dangerous, police said.

Anyone with information on German’s location should call police at 724-834-3800.