A Vandergrift man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting in Swissvale is now locked up in the Allegheny County Jail after US Marshals caught up with him more than two weeks later in a neighboring county. Marcus Carter, 36, was taken into custody Tuesday in New Kensington, Westmoreland County, and booked in a homicide that left 23-year-old Kahmi Samill Naylor dead inside a Locust Street apartment earlier this month.
Carter was identified as a suspect in the Oct. 1 shooting on Locust Street in Swissvale, according to WPXI. Naylor was killed in that incident, the station reports, and Carter has since been charged in connection with the Allegheny County homicide. He is now being held at the Allegheny County Jail following his arrest.
How the Shooting Unfolded
Police were called to the Locust Street apartment around 4:15 a.m. on Oct. 1 after reports of shots fired and a person shot inside, according to CBS News Pittsburgh. Responding officers found a victim who had been shot multiple times in the chest area, and that person was pronounced dead at the scene, the station reported. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office later identified the victim as Kahmi Samill Naylor of Swissvale.
Preliminary information indicated that two suspects fled the building through a back door, per the same CBS News Pittsburgh account. The Allegheny County Police Department took over the investigation from local officers on the morning of October 1, 2026, though the evidence reviewed does not establish a motive or any relationship between Carter and Naylor.
Arrest Weeks Later in Westmoreland County
More than two weeks after the shooting, members of the US Marshal Fugitive Task Force located Carter in New Kensington and took him into custody Tuesday, WPXI reported. He was then transferred to Allegheny County, where he remains held at the county jail. No details on how investigators tracked him to Westmoreland County, nor information about a court appearance or bail status, have been made public.
The identity and status of the second person reported to have fled the Locust Street apartment that morning remain unknown, and it is unclear whether that individual has faced any charges. For now, Carter's arrest marks the only confirmed break in a case that began with a predawn 911 call on Locust Street and ended with a fatal shooting that shook the small Allegheny County borough of Swissvale.
