QUARRYVILLE, Pa. — One of the three suspects charged last week with kidnapping and murdering a Lancaster man earlier this year has also been charged in connection to a shots-fired incident in southern Lancaster County, authorities said Monday.
Steven Gaddis, 27, of Nottingham, Chester County, was charged Friday with aggravated assault, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, and three counts of recklessly endangering another person in connection to an April 15 shooting in Quarryville, the borough's police department said.
According to police, at about 9:10 p.m. on that date, an occupied home was struck by multiple shots. No one was injured, police said.
Gaddis was also charged last Friday with the murder of 25-year-old Matthew Whisman of East Drumore Township, along with alleged accomplices Alexander Whisman and Jeremy Absher.
The three suspects are each charged with 11 offenses in connection to Matthew Whisman's disappearance in April and subsequent murder. They are accused of conspiring to assault, kidnap, and murder Matthew Whisman, who intended to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation of a shots-fired incident that occurred in Maryland last January, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office.
Gaddis and Alexander Whisman are Matthew Whisman's cousins, authorities said.
It was during the investigation of Matthew Whisman's murder that police were able to identify Gaddis as the suspect in the Quarryville incident, police said.
There was no apparent connection between the residents of the home in Quarryville and Gaddis, police determined.
Gaddis is currently incarcerated in Chester County Prison on unrelated felony charges and will remain in custody pending a preliminary hearing in relation to the Quarryville incident, the borough's police department said.
Anyone with additional information can contact Detective Burns of the Quarryville Borough Police department.
