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Man charged in stabbing death of teen
Tuesday, January 04, 2000 By Mike Bucsko, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
A Lincoln Place man will face a preliminary hearing Jan. 14 on a charge of homicide in the stabbing death last week of a Whitehall teen-ager outside a Pleasant Hills bar.
Peter Chalus, 25, was arraigned yesterday at the Allegheny County coroner's office and ordered held without bond in the Allegheny County Jail until the preliminary hearing.
Chalus is charged with stabbing Shawn Sweeney Dec. 27 in the parking lot of the In The Back Jack bar in the Southland Shopping Center. Police said the stabbing occurred after Sweeney attacked Chalus with a lug wrench in the parking lot when Chalus left the bar shortly after 2:30 a.m.
Sweeney, a senior at Baldwin High School, died that night from multiple stab wounds to the head, neck and chest, according to the coroner's office.
Sweeney apparently used a fake identification that said he was 22 to get served in the bar. He and a friend, Brian Ester, 23, of West Mifflin, got into an argument with Chalus and Edward Kostovny, 25, of Bethel Park, in the bar after comments were made to a woman who was with Chalus, police said.
Sweeney and Ester left the bar and waited outside for Chalus, county police Inspector Ken Fulton said. As Sweeney went after Chalus with a lug wrench, Chalus reached into his car, pulled out a 9-inch knife and repeatedly stabbed Sweeney, police said.
Meanwhile, Ester and Kostovny began fighting and Ester was stabbed. Kostovny has not been charged because police have not been able to determine how Ester was stabbed, Fulton said. Ester was treated at Mercy Hospital after the incident.
Chalus was also stabbed once and also received head injuries. He was treated at Jefferson Hospital.
Chalus surrendered at the county police headquarters in Point Breeze with his attorney, Patrick Thomassey, who could not be reached yesterday.
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