Beaver County homicide suspect surfaces in Mercer County - Beaver County Times

Posted: Sunday, November 27, 2011 5:33 pm | Updated: 8:59 pm, Sun Nov 27, 2011.

The first person charged with criminal homicide in Beaver County in 2011 spent Sunday overnight in the Mercer County Jail before being released to officers from the Beaver County District Attorney's office, according to a spokesman for the Mercer County Jail.

Robert Allen Maier, 60, of 105 Terrace Lane, New Sewickley, was charged with criminal homicide Saturday by Rochester Borough police officer Jeffrey Lizzi. There are no related charges.

Rochester Detective Dawn Shane said Saturday that Maier shot Matthew Rose, 31, twice with a handgun in the kitchen of a residence at 409 Jackson Street. Shane said Rose was shot once with a handgun by Maier, turned to leave, and was shot again in the back.

Shane identified Rose as the son of Maier's girlfriend, who was not identified. The woman resided in the house where the shooting took place, according to police.

Maier was not apprehended in Beaver County, but was brought to the Mercer County Jail by Greenville police and booked shortly after midnight, according to a jail spokesman. Officers from the Beaver County District Attorney's office arrived shortly after noon Sunday to take custody of Maier.

The jail spokesman was unable to say if Maier turned himself into officers or if he was apprehended in flight.

According to online court records, Maier had no previous criminal record.

While Rochester police contacted the Times Saturday evening to ask for help in finding Maier when he was at-large, no one from the department was available Sunday evening to say their search had ended. An inquiry from the Times could not be addressed until Monday morning, according to a man who answered the department's inside line.

Online court records Sunday afternoon show Maier has not yet had yet been arraigned in Beaver County and is not yet residing in the Beaver County Jail.

District Attorney Anthony Berosh of Beaver County, in a Nov. 3 interview with the Times, said Beaver County had not yet had a criminal homicide in 2011.

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