According to a criminal complaint, Brittanty Alcorn, 22, of Pittsburgh refused repeated commands to exit her vehicle — some given at gunpoint, struck two parked cars and tried to run over three police officers with her Honda Civic, before one officer “fired four quick shots at [Alcorn’s] vehicle that almost ran him over.”
Alcorn was able to elude and get by at least five police cars, including a police wagon and lead officers on a high speed chase, getting up to at 80 mph said police spokesperson Sonya Toler, before finally being stopped at least 10 blocks from the Zoo.
Having multiple police officers around her didn’t stop Alcorn from continuing to try and harm and fight police. After she was physically removed from her car through a window Alcorn “would not obey commands to put her arms behind her back,” the complaint alleges.
It took several officers who fought with Alcorn a few minutes before they finally were able to handcuff her. “Officers smelled an alcoholic beverage coming from her person while they were placing her in handcuffs,” police allege.
Alcorn still continued to fight and resist arrest despite the presence of numerous police officers, being handcuffed and put in the back of a police car.
“Alcorn immediately became combative and aggressive in the rear of the patrol vehicle and was trying to damage the patrol car,” the document alleges.
Police were able to get Alcorn in a police wagon, and then took her to a local hospital where she refused to have her blood drawn to determine the amount alcohol she had in her system.
Zoo officials called police around 10:30 p.m. after Alcorn had an altercation with a Zoo employee and pushed her in her chest. Police and zoo security officers located Alcorn and another woman as they were getting into Alcorn’s car.
As soon as police arrived the other woman jumped out of the car telling Alcorn “I’m not riding with you, you’re [expletive] drunk.” An officer wrote in the complaint that he “smelled an alcoholic beverage coming from her person and she was also speaking in comprehensible sentences.”
It was at this point Alcorn was able to get her car started while refusing the officer’s commands to get out of the car and drive away striking two parked cars, and almost hitting at least three police officers.
Toler said that Alcorn was not shot, but she was not able to tell Digital Journal if the officer who fired the shots was placed on administrative leave or taken off patrol duty.
Online court records show that she received a month of probation for possession of marijuana in neighboring Westmoreland County in 2013 and a charge of purchasing alcohol by a minor was dismissed.
However, in March Alcorn was placed on probation for a year in Westmoreland County, after she plead guilty to DUI and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, and her driver’s license was suspended court records show.
Alcorn faces six charges of aggravated assault, one count of eluding police, two counts of recklessly endangering another person, one count of resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an accident and DUI.
She was arraigned shortly after 7:00 p.m., and was jailed in lieu of posting a $25,000 straight bond. An October 19 preliminary hearing has been scheduled.
The other woman named in the complaint will not face any charges, “As she did not participate in the incident,” said Toler.
