Overview
- George Mitchell II is in custody and faces attempted homicide and aggravated assault charges after a car hit two girls on Doyle Street on Thursday.
- Fourteen-year-old Prudence Sibley underwent emergency surgery and faces more procedures, and a 15-year-old girl remains hospitalized with serious injuries.
- A witness statement in the criminal complaint says the car swerved toward the teens, accelerated to hit them, and was moving at least 45 mph in a 25 mph zone.
- Police say the same vehicle hit a dog in Wilmerding and was tied to an attempted carjacking in Penn Hills, and they found it around 8:30 p.m. on Penny Drive with a smashed windshield.
- Allegheny County detectives are investigating a separate stabbing death reported later that night involving Mitchell’s arrival at UPMC Mercy, and he has not been charged in that case.