Court document provides fresh details to recent Old Lycoming Township shooting
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Moments before gunfire erupted inside 1955 Lycoming Creek Road on Aug. 15, brothers Levis Gage Johnson and Dominic Reynolds "squared up" in an argument with Johnson telling Reynolds "You got something to say," according to a Lycoming Regional police affidavit. Johnson told his brother "he was going to fight him because he 'was legal,' meaning he had a license to carry a concealed firearm," the court document stated.
"Johnson subsequently pulled a firearm from his pocket, and chambered a round into the magazine," investigators alleged. Reynolds, stepping toward his brother, told him "Dude, you're going to have to blow that (expletive)," the affidavit stated.
Other occupants in the home reported hearing what sounded like "the sliding of a handgun followed by a pop. Reynolds was then heard yelling 'You shot me. You shot me bro,'" police said in the court document.
Johnson, 26, who lives at the scene of the shooting and claimed he shot his brother in self-defense, told police he "deliberately aimed for the right side of Reynolds' chest to avoid striking his heart, the affidavit stated. Reynolds, who "infrequently resides in the same house,"
was taken by ambulance to UPMC Williamsport to get treatment for his injuries. However, he later left the hospital against the advice of medical staff, police said.
Charged with aggravated and simple assault as well as recklessly endangering another person, Johnson, who will have a preliminary hearing on Sept. 9 before District Judge William Solomon, remains locked up in the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $200,000 bail.