Man shot by police in Titusville faces charges in Crawford crime spree - GoErie.com

The Venango County resident is accused of taking vehicles, guns in Rome Township before he was shot while running from police in August.

Tim Hahn @ETNHahn

TITUSVILLE — A man accused of committing a series of crimes in eastern Crawford County before he was shot after breaking into a Titusville home in an attempt to evade police faces charges in four criminal cases.

Timothy A. McGarvie, 30, of Rouseville, Venango County, awaits arraignment before Titusville District Judge Amy Nicols in criminal cases filed between Aug. 24, when he was charged by state police with stealing a vehicle and running from troopers; and Monday, when he was charged in connection with his apprehension in Titusville on Aug. 26. An arraignment was scheduled before Nicols on Monday afternoon but did not take place. A new arraignment date had not been scheduled as of Tuesday.

McGarvie remains in the State Correctional Institution at Albion on a theft of movable property charge in another Crawford County case.

McGarvie faces charges including theft and arson in the theft of a Ford Ranger that was taken from a lumber company in Rome Township, crashed and set on fire on Aug. 19 or Aug. 20; charges of burglary and theft in the taking of two handguns from a Rome Township residence between Aug. 20 and Aug. 22; charges of theft, receiving stolen property and fleeing in the theft in Rome Township of a Ford Escape that was later crashed in a wooded area on Aug. 24; and charges including burglary, aggravated assault and recklessly endangering related to his apprehension, according to court documents.

State police charge that McGarvie was fleeing from troopers who had spotted the stolen Ford Escape and attempted to stop it on Aug. 24 when he drove down a logging road, crashed the vehicle into a tree and abandoned it. Troopers said they found evidence in the vehicle indicating that McGarvie was the driver, and an arrest warrant was issued for him on charges in the theft and police chase.

State police troopers and Titusville police officers were searching for McGarvie on Aug. 26 when investigators said he ran into an occupied residence on North Second Street in Titusville and went to an upstairs bedroom, where he went through clothing and put on a sweatshirt. A woman, who was inside the house with her five children, confronted McGarvie and made him remove a sweatshirt he put on, and she opened a door to the residence and told two arriving state police troopers that McGarvie had gone upstairs, according to Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz.

McGarvie exited a bedroom armed with a handgun when the troopers reached the top of the stairs, and the troopers could see a small boy on the bed behind McGarvie, Schultz said. He said McGarvie did not comply when the troopers told him to drop the gun, which McGarvie was pointing at his head, and when McGarvie made a move toward the troopers while moving the gun from his head one of the troopers fired his gun, striking McGarvie in the arm.

No one else was injured in the incident. The gun that McGarvie had inside the house was one of the weapons stolen in the Rome Township burglary, according to investigators.

Schultz announced in early October that, based on his review of the Aug. 26 incident, the trooper, who was not named, was justified in shooting McGarvie given the situation.

McGarvie was treated at UPMC Hamot and was placed in SCI Albion after his release from the hospital. State police filed the charges against him in the lumber company truck theft and the gun thefts on Oct. 16, according to court documents.

Tim Hahn can be reached at 870-1731 or by email. Follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ETNhahn.

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