Valley man sentenced for 2022 Rostraver Township home shooting

Tre Robert Goins, 31, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and weapons charges.

By RICH CHOLODOFSKY
TribLive

A Donora man was ordered to serve up to eight years in state prison for firing shots at a Rostraver Township home.

Tre Robert Goins, 31, pleaded guilty in Westmoreland County on Tuesday to aggravated assault, illegal possession of a firearm and discharging a weapon into an occupied home. Prosecutors dismissed related counts of reckless endangerment in return for a sentence of four to eight years in prison.

Police said Goins drove by and fired three shots at a home on Webster Hollow Road on Oct. 16, 2022, in what authorities later said was a dispute involving the girlfriend of the residence’s occupant. Four people, including two children, were in the home at the time of the shooting. No one was injured.

According to court records, police found a shell casing left at the shooting scene that contained DNA from Goins. Video from license plate readers tracked his car as it traveled across the Donora-Monessen Bridge moments before the shooting, police said.

Goins was arrested last year for his role in the Rostraver shooting after federal authorities matched a gun confiscated from his vehicle — following a police chase and crash — to the Rostraver shooting.

Goins last year was convicted following a trial in federal court of weapons offenses. He previously pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking counts and was sentenced in October to serve more than 12 years in prison.

According to court records, Goins fled from police during a May 24, 2024, traffic stop and after a high-speed chase through Duquesne that ended in a crash. Police found about $10,000 worth of fentanyl and cocaine and a loaded, stolen firearm in Goins’ car.

His sentence in the Rostraver shooting case will run concurrent to his federal sentence.