A Lawrenceville teen was arraigned this morning on charges stemming from a gun battle Tuesday outside the wave pool at Boyce Park in Monroeville.

No one was wounded in the shooting as hundreds of pool patrons fled for cover when the shooting started around 6:15 p.m.

An Allegheny County police officer had been on patrol when he was dispatched to the pool vicinity because of a disturbance there, according to a police affidavit that supports the suspect's arrest.

The officer said he saw an unidentified gunman on a grassy hillside firing a pistol at a white SUV stopped at a nearby intersection. The officer said he also heard shots being fired from the direction of the vehicle.

The driver of the SUV jumped into the vehicle, a Jeep Grand Cherokee, and sped away when he saw the officer approaching, but the vehicle crashed a short time later into boulders on Garden City Drive near Center Road, where Monroeville police came upon the wreckage.

The suspect, James Lee Bundridge, 18, was found hiding in a wooded area near the crash, the affidavit said.

Under questioning, Mr. Bundridge told police that he had been involved in a year-long dispute with the other gunman who, with friends, had taunted the suspect as he left the pool area. Profane name-calling persisted as he drove away, so he stopped and got out to confront the other men.

When one of the men opened fire, the suspect said, he jumped into his Jeep, pulled a .40-caliber pistol from his pocket and shot back before he fled the approaching county police officer. The gun had been reported stolen May 22 from a residence in Wilkinsburg, police said.

As the suspect fled, police said, the pistol was tossed from a window and later recovered by investigators. Mr. Bundridge said he got the gun from a crack cocaine addict on the South Side in exchange for drugs.

The suspect's wallet and a small amount of marijuana were found in the wrecked vehicle. The suspect admitted the marijuana was his.

One other vehicle, parked and unoccupied outside the wave pool, sustained several bullet holes in the crossfire. Investigators said the damage, to the rear window and front fender, was caused by bullets fired from Mr. Bundridge's gun.

Mr. Bundridge is being held on $50,000 bail in the county jail on charges of firing a gun into an occupied structure, carrying a firearm without a license, fleeing and eluding police, receiving stolen property, reckless endangerment, prohibited acts related to marijuana possession, and driving without a license.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled at 1 p.m. Tuesday before District Judge Jeffrey Herbst in Monroeville.

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