3 arrested in Millcreek home invasion, shooting

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MILLCREEK — Three people were arrested after an alleged home invasion Monday morning apparently motivated by a drug debt, Unified police said.

Two shots were fired during the altercation and one person was “grazed” by a bullet, according to Unified police detective Kevin Mallory and a jail affidavit.

Five people, including the person who was grazed by the bullet, were questioned in connection to the incident. Three arrests had been made by Monday evening and a fourth was anticipated, the police department said.

Conner Veach, 24, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated robbery, aggravated assault, and two counts of discharge of a firearm. Serene Al-Abbodi, 21, and Kyle Brady Mehr, 24, were each arrested on suspicion of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault.

Al-Abbodi drove Veach, Mehr, and a third person to a residence at 4284 S. Normandie Lane to confront a man there about a drug debt, according to the affidavit. A man and woman, identified in the affidavit as Al-Abbodi and Veach, entered the residence through an unlocked door about 7:45 a.m., police said.

The pair found the man, and Veach and the man began to argue, according to the affidavit. Veach produced a semi-automatic handgun, telling the man, “I will shoot you,” and shot in the direction of the man’s feet, the responding officer wrote.

The officer wrote that Veach and the man began to physically fight until Mehr, who later told police he had been waiting in the car and only went inside when he heard a gunshot, put the man in a chokehold. The gun “went off again” while Mehr had the man in a chokehold, according to the affidavit; Mehr told police he let the man go when another man confronted him with a box cutter.

Veach later told police that he had brought the handgun to the residence in the waistband of his pants and admitted that it had gone off twice during the altercation with the man, according to the affidavit.

Mehr and the fourth person in the car, Korbin Elsmore, both told police that they had gone to the residence to get drugs, the officer wrote.

One of the men who entered the house suffered a possible broken arm, according to Mallory. As his girlfriend drove him away from the scene, she called 911 to report the assault, but failed to mention the home invasion, he said.

Veach, Al-Abbodi and Mehr were jailed Monday, with bail for Veach and Mehr set at $100,000 each and bail for Al-Abbodi set at $150,000.