The details on Herb Pope's shooting are still very hazy. Mainly because Pope himself wasn't particularly forthcoming about the incident.Chief Pallante said Mr. Pope walked into Aliquippa Hospital's emergency room early yesterday after someone, whom he did not name, dropped him off and left. Mr. Pope was stabilized and then taken to UPMC.So Pope's story at the moment is that he was at a party at 3 am when someone he didn't know, just shot him four times "for no reason." I'm not sure that is completely plausible. Add in the fact that he was dropped off at the emergency room by an identified person. Well, there's just a few gaps in this narrative.
"He stated that he was at a party at that 800 block of 8th Avenue and someone had shot him," Chief Pallante said. "He did not know who, did not know why."
"He just said somebody did it for no reason," Mr. Reddic said. "I'm not sure of the whole story."
Chief Pallante said Mr. Pope did not say whether he was indoors or out at the time of the shooting.
Right now, the police are giving him a couple days to recover from the surgery and come out of the haze of being shot and pumped full of painkillers before asking any more questions. They claim not to have any leads and the exact house in the neighborhood where the party took place is in question.
Despite being shot four times -- twice in the abdomen, once in the thigh and once in his left arm -- his life is in no danger. As for his basketball career, it seems the gunshot wound to his left arm is going to be the serious issue.
