The brother of the bouncer killed in a shooting outside an Elks Lodge in Westmoreland County over the weekend was charged with homicide.

Steffon Ballard was charged with criminal homicide, attempted homicide, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm prohibited in connection with the death of Jeffrey Ballard, who was the lodge's bouncer, the Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office said in a news release on Tuesday.

The Ballards were allegedly involved in an altercation with another man in the parking lot of the Elks Lodge on Third Avenue in New Kensington on Saturday around 3 a.m. The district attorney's office said Steffon Ballard was seen by witnesses pulling a handgun from his sock and hitting the other man in the head with it. While striking the man, the gun dischar

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