Man Shot at High Pockets Pool Hall

By Russell Lorrie
The Braddock Times

A Braddock man is recovering at Ewing Memorial Hospital after being shot at High Pockets Pool Hall late last night.

Jonathan Oliver Blair III, who wrestles in the WNWA as The Turd, was shot in the shoulder after an altercation at the south Braddock pool hall. The assailant is unknown, though a Crimestopper call accused Antonio Davis of the shooting. Davis, however, was in custody for another crime and deputies have determined he was not involved.

Blair was at the bar section of the pool hall when a shot rang out, striking him in the neck area of his costume. One witness said "that Hershey Bar went down like a ton of bricks. He was bleeding and oozing shit or something out of his wound.

A spokesperson at Ewing Memorial said Blair nearly died from loss of blood, but doctors were able to save him. The spokesperson said Blair is expected to make a full recovery except that his costume's head will always tilt slightly to the left after this.