Two of the four men charged in connection with a drive-by shooting at a Mt. Pleasant Township house will remain in jail after a judge on Tuesday refused to reduce their $250,000 bonds.
Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Feliciani rejected requests from Nino S. Manno, 21, of Adamsburg and Jaron Haten-McCoy, 23, of Greensburg. They sought release to house arrest or a lower bail amount as they await trial on charges of aggravated assault, conspiracy and weapons offenses.
Manno and Haten-McCoy, along with Ronan Hunter, 19, and Joshua James Gross, 22, both of Jeannette, were charged in relation to a March 2, 2025, shooting at an occupied home on Poker Road. Prosecutors contend Manno, Gross and Hunter were refused admission to a house party and drove to the residence with Haten-McCoy to fire multiple rounds into the structure, striking a front door and window. No one was injured, police said.
Hunter, who faces aggravated assault, weapons and conspiracy counts, remains in jail in lieu of a $500,000 bond. Gross, who is charged with two counts of conspiracy, is free on unsecured bail.
Manno drove the vehicle, according to prosecutors.
“He was the ringleader of the posse and went out and shot a gun into a house and a neighbor’s house all because they were not invited to a party,” Assistant District Attorney Adam Barr said.
The other men charged told police Haten-McCoy was in the car and participated in the shooting, prosecutors contend. Haten-McCoy was convicted of a similar offense in connection with a shooting at a Greensburg apartment building in 2021 when he was a juvenile.
In that case, Haten-McCoy was prosecuted as an adult and pleaded guilty to reduced charges of aggravated assault. Feliciani imposed what he called a lenient sentence in 2023, ordering Haten-McCoy to serve just under one to two years in jail and five years of probation. Prosecutors are seeking to revoke that probation following the Mt. Pleasant arrest.
“Hindsight is 20-20. This event occurs while the defendant is on supervision for that sentence,” the judge said in denying the lower bail request.
Defense attorney David Mulock said Haten-McCoy intends to go to trial, arguing the evidence linking his client to the shooting is weak and based solely on statements from the other co-defendants.
“There’s no other evidence that ties him to this case,” Mulock said.
Meanwhile, Manno faces charges in two other related cases. Prosecutors last year charged him with witness intimidation regarding two calls they say he made from jail. According to court records, Manno is accused of attempting to coerce a witness not to testify and, in a separate call, directing a juvenile to retrieve a gun from Manno’s home to bury it in Indiana County.
Those cases remain pending.