Uniontown police investigating teen's fatal shooting in apparent drive-by killing

A teenager was shot dead while sitting with friends in a parked car outside a Uniontown home on Friday night, police said.

Police found Kaii McCargo, 19, shot twice in “vital parts of his body” and laying in the yard at a house along the 100 block of Evans Street, said Lt. Thomas Kolencik.

He said police received a call of “multiple shots fired” shortly after 10 p.m.

Kolencik said the shooting appeared to be a drive-by. He said McCargo and two others, who Kolencik described as “close friends,” were in the parked vehicle when another vehicle opened fire as it passed.

The lieutenant said no others were shot or injured.

“Right now, we’re not getting 100% of what happened. We have bits and pieces at this point,” Kolencik said, adding McCargo’s friends, the ones in the car with McCargo, are not being particularly helpful. One of the friends refused to talk to police, he said.

“According to our witness, they were planning to visit someone in the residence when the shooting occurred,” Kolencik said.

Kolencik said there are no suspects yet but that “names are trickling in.”

Tyajah McConnaughey, 23, of Dayton, Ohio is McCargo’s cousin. She said her aunt, McCargo’s mother, submitted surveillance video to the police that caught the shooting.

Kolencik said there are several videos, but said the footage does not confirm anything.

“If it did, we’d have an arrest,” he said, declining to offer more about the investigation.

He urged anyone with information to call the police department at 724-430-2929. Callers can remain anonymous.

McConnaughey wants people to remember her cousin as a good person. She grew up about five minutes away from McCargo and other members of the large family growing up and described their relationship as “inseparable.”

“He was very protective … and he was always the sensitive one to make sure we were all OK,” she said. “He was never a mean person.”

She said the McCargo family’s elders always preached the importance of family and taking care of their own.

“He actually abided by it,” McConnaughey said.

McCargo’s cousin took to Facebook on Saturday shortly after learning about the shooting and wrote about him. Among other loving attributes, she called McCargo a dreamer, a protector and a hugger.

“He wanted to live a better life than what he was living,” she said. “He had dreams to be a rapper, and he was really good at it.”