GROVE CITY, PA. Cops seek 2 in slaying of juvenile center counselor

Police said Wayne Urey was attacked while working at the detention center.
By HAROLD GWIN
VINDICATOR SHARON BUREAU
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- State police were looking for two male juveniles this morning in the slaying of a counselor at George Junior Republic in Pine Township.
Authorities said the attack occurred around 12:30 a.m. today, and the counselor, Wayne L. Urey Jr., 43, of Mercer, was assaulted while he was working. He was pronounced dead at United Community Hospital by Scott Black, Mercer County deputy coroner.
The nature of the attack wasn't revealed this morning, and the coroner's office hasn't announced a cause of death.
Police said the two boys, identified as Anthony Machicote, 17, of North Homewood Avenue, Pittsburgh, and Jeremy Melvin, 16, of Beaver Street, McKeesport, had been sent to the juvenile detention center by an Allegheny County court.
Machicote is described as Hispanic, 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing about 180 pounds. He has brown eyes and red hair.
Melvin is black, 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs about 190 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.
Open campus
George Junior has no fences or gates and is set up in an open-campus arrangement with small groups of boys living in cottages with house-parent counselors.
Escapes there are common, and assaults on counselors have occurred in the past.
Police said the two suspects were believed to have fled in Urey's blue Chevy S10 pickup truck with Pennsylvania license plate YJL-6057.
The juveniles are facing only a charge of escape at this time, police said this morning, adding that authorities want to question them about the stolen vehicle and homicide, which they believe are connected.