Two men are injured after a shooting in Homestead Saturday night.
Allegheny County police said the shooting happened along the 300 block of W. 12th Avenue around 9:30 p.m.
When officers got on scene, they found two men with several gunshot wounds. Both were taken to the hospital. Police said one is critical, the other in stable condition.
Neighbors at the scene told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 a graduation party was going on at the time, and the victims were attending it. Neighbors also said they heard rapid gunfire.
Homestead Police Department requested the Allegheny County Police Department’s Homicide Unit.
Police ask anyone with information to call the County Police Tip Line 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
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President Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer ordered elections officials to keep track of how many undated ballots there are. Election officials estimate there are about 800 statewide.
The Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary between celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick is undergoing a recount.
The recount needs to be completed by June 7, with the final results announced June 8. Oz led McCormick by fewer than 1,000 votes before the recount, but the exact number of votes remaining is unknown.
The winner of the recount will face Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. In the Pennsylvania governor’s race, it’s state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, versus Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano.
A shooting outside a church in Iowa left three dead Thursday, including the suspected gunman.
A shooting in Iowa left two people and a suspected gunman dead outside a church in Ames, Iowa Thursday evening, the Story County Sheriff’s Department confirmed.
The shooting happened just before 7 p.m. local time when a man opened fire on two female victims in front of Cornerstone Church on US-30, Capt. Nicholas A. Lennie told Fox News Digital.
The church was holding an event for college-age kids when the shooting occurred, the station reported.
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman accused of illegally collecting early ballots in the 2020 primary election pleaded guilty Thursday in an agreement with state prosecutors that saw the more serious forgery and conspiracy charges dismissed and limited any potential for a lengthy prison sentence.
Guillermina Fuentes, 66, could get probation for running what Arizona attorney general’s office investigators said was a sophisticated operation using her status as a well-known Democratic operative in the border city of San Luis to persuade voters to let her gather and in some cases fill out their ballots.
PITTSBURGH — A social media post showing a teen waiving a gun has led to two arrests.
Police say they recognized the location in the post and acted fast.
Police said discovered that the video was shot in a parking lot in East Hills. They went to the scene and found a large group of young people, many of which were underage. The group fled and police were able to catch up with two of them.
Some of the people at the scene were known to be gang members.
Police arrested an underage male and 21-year-old Storm Marby. Marby is accused of dropping a stolen firearm during the foot pursuit with police. Officers found a total of eight firearms, four bricks of heroin, two bundles of fentanyl and other drugs in vehicles left behind at the scene.
Beginning at 10 p.m. Friday, more Pittsburgh police officers in full uniform will be patrolling on East Carson Street on the South Side.
By Rick Earle, WPXI-TV
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police plan to crack down on East Carson Street this weekend, and Target 11 investigator Rick Earle has learned they won’t be using undercover patrols, but saturation patrols.
Beginning at 10 p.m. Friday, more Pittsburgh police officers in full uniform will be patrolling on East Carson Street on the South Side. The show of force is meant to address the recent uptick in violence in that area, especially during the evening hours when bars and restaurants are filled with customers. East Carson Street is a popular nightspot in the city.
“We have to be able to get our arms around this and bring a sense of control and stability to the southside, and let people know that they’re safe,” said Zone 3 Commander John Fisher, whose zone includes East Carson Street on the Southside.
State police suspect the last day of school in Hempfield Area School District may have been the impetus for two bizarre, unrelated incidents that prompted a lockdown of three schools Thursday. Police said a 14-year-old wearing a hot dog costume with his face painted as the Joker, a DC Comics character.
“We were already at the high school investigating another incident with a 16-year-old, wearing a gas mask on the school bus and as he entered the school, who made a threat on social media. That was before 8 a.m., and then the teenager, with the hot dog costume, occurred just seven minutes later,” state police spokesman Steve Limani said.
The women were shot dead outside a church in Ames moments after Joe Biden urged Congress to ban assault weapons
A man has shot and killed two women in the parking lot of a church in Iowa and then turned the gun on himself, police said, adding three more dead to the national toll from a series of recent shootings that have rocked the United States.
Police said the attack was not random, but declined to give additional details. The remaining injuries were not life-threatening. The gunman died at the scene, the police said.
A woman was evaluated by paramedics and two junior firefighters were taken to the hospital after fire broke out in a three-story building that has apartments in Terrace Village, which is located in Pittsburgh’s Oak Hill neighborhood.
The fire was reported around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the building on the 3000 block of Terrace Street.
Gov. Tom Wolf came to Pittsburgh Wednesday to discuss his proposed plan to give $2,000 in direct payments to Pennsylvanians using American Rescue Plan Act money.
Despite a $1.7 billion proposal by Wolf, his office said Pennsylvania is sitting on more than $2 billion in federal ARPA dollars that remain without a plan and uncommitted.
The money would have to be sent back to the federal government by Dec. 31, 2024.
In April, Wolf’s office said Democratic leaders in the Senate and House committed to introducing bills to support Wolf’s PA Opportunity Program.
The program uses $500 million in ARPA dollars to provide direct payments of up to $2,000 for Pennsylvania households with an income of $80,000 or less.
The program aims to help families still recovering economically from the COVID-19 pandemic or support them with covering pandemic-related costs and managing the current, everyday increasing cost of living.
“I’m talking about $2 billion that’s sitting in a checking account out in Harrisburg,” Wolf said at the West View Hub on Wednesday. “If we don’t use it by the end of 2024, we have to send it back to Washington.”
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A 3-year-old boy died at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh after an incident that started with a report that he was choking on baby wipes at a home in Bedford County.
Police said they were called to a house on East First Street in Everett Brough on Saturday night for a report that Travis W. Young, of Everett, was choking on the wipes. EMS personnel were able to remove the wipes from Young’s airway.
He was taken to a hospital in Bedford County and then airlifted to the hospital in Pittsburgh where he died on Sunday afternoon.
According to the criminal complaint, the boy had bruising and marks on his chest and neck consistent with being caused by an adult.
His cause of death was ruled a homicide and, according to investigators, was determined to be a result of manual strangulation and asphyxiation.
His step mother, 31-year-old Chelsea Cooley, of Everett, is charged with criminal homicide and other offenses.
A gun reform rally was held Tuesday afternoon outside of U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s office building in downtown Pittsburgh.
Several organizations including Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, March for Our Lives, Cease Fire PA, Pittsburgh Public School teachers, parents and students came together to demand Toomey support gun safety legislation.
“Even though, as Americans, we disagree on many of these points we agree that action is needed. So let’s come together with Sen. Toomey and focus on what we can to get something done to save our kids,” said Parkland shooting survivor and co-founder of March for Our Lives, David Hogg.
The rally is in light of recent violence across the city of Pittsburgh and the nation, including the mass shooting in Buffalo and the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting.
“The shooter in Buffalo was not a criminal mastermind, the shooter in Texas was not a criminal mastermind,” Hogg said. “These were barely adults, they were 18 and 19-year-olds who waited until they were old enough to buy an AR-15 legally and they did so. Stop arming the bad guys with guns.”
“People are afraid, people are angry that our children aren’t being protected,” said Nina Esposito-Visgitis, Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers president. “Our teachers do everything they can to protect our kids, our students mean everything to them. But some things can not protect our students unless, the laws are in place.”
A man is dead and a woman is in the hospital following a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood.
The shooting happened a little before 1 a.m. Wednesday on the 7700 block of Frankstown Avenue.
Pittsburgh Public Safety said the man was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman was taken to the hospital in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the chest.
The man who was killed was identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office as Glenn Tyrone Davenport III, 34, of Pittsburgh.
BETHEL PARK, Pa. (KDKA) – Two men were arrested after Bethel Park police said they tried to shoplift then pepper sprayed a store employee.
Police said William Loughner and Witt Yost tried to leave a store with stolen merchandise earlier this month.
When an employee stopped them and asked for a receipt, police said Loughner pepper sprayed the worker before they both ran away.
Through their investigation, police said they were able to identify the pair. Warrants were issued for both of them, and police said they were recently arrested in Washington County.
Loughner was charged with robbery, criminal conspiracy, simple assault, retail theft and possessing instruments of crime while Witt was charged with criminal conspiracy and retail theft.
The Pittsburgh Environmental Services collection truck the two employees were sitting in was struck by gunfire on May 23. Neither employee was injured.
PITTSBURGH —
Police say the person identify as the gunman who fired two shots at city environmental services employees is now in custody.
Henry Rainey, 37, was arrested Tuesday at his home on Race Street in Stowe Township. He’s charged with two counts each of aggravated assault and reckless endangering, plus a count of criminal mischief, all based on what happened May 23 in the 500 block of Fairywood Street in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Fairywood.
More than 30 people lost their lives from gun violence around the country over a blood-spattered Memorial Day weekend — just days after the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Dozens of victims — including 13 in Philadelphia alone — lost their lives with violence spiraling across the nation.
The City of Brotherly Love was anything but over the holiday weekend, with the staggering body count including a father and his nine-year-old son, according to local reports.
Gerald Parks, 38, and his boy, Jamel, were sprayed with bullets and killed in their car after going to a cookout, CBS 3 reported.
In another incident early Monday, two women were killed and a 14-year-old child injured after a shooting at an outdoor hookah smoking party.
At least a dozen other Philadelphians were also wounded from gunfire, cops said.
Riders at Kennywood were stuck on the Aero 360 for about five minutes Monday afternoon during a ride stoppage, officials said“Maintenance staff responded, quickly brought the ride back to its designated rest position, and safely evacuated the riders,” Mark Pauls, the park’s general manager, said in a statement.
The incident occurred around 4 p.m. Spokesman Nick Paradise said there were 21 people on the ride, and they were “stopped upside down for a short period of time.”
“First Aid staff met with the guests, with three briefly visiting the First Aid Center as a precaution before being released back into the park,” Pauls said. “Safety is our first and foremost priority. The ride remains closed while a review of the incident is conducted.
Police, firefighters and paramedics were all called to the scene after a pickup truck crashed into a utility pole in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln Place neighborhood.
The crash happened around 4:45 a.m. Tuesday on the 5300 block of Mifflin Road.
While paramedics were called to the scene, it was not initially clear if anyone was taken to the hospital.
Duquesne Light crews were called to the scene to make repairs to the utility pole.
Mifflin Road was shut down while crews were on the scene but reopened shortly before 6:10 a.m.
For customers who are frustrated when they can’t get a quick meal on the go, scenes like this one may not go away soon.
A Pittsburgh-area resident shared a video of one local restaurant with not a single employee or customer inside.
“Showed up to this Burger King on Noblestown Road, and there is nobody in here. Nobody in here. Went to the drive-thru, nothing,” he says in the video.
In the video, Lazz Tantalo described his experience when he tried to order food on a Friday afternoon.
He went through the drive-thru and saw no workers; went into the dining room and found no one there.
He even opened the door but found no one in the kitchen: “Anybody here? Hello?”
Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 learned that the single employee who showed up for their shift that day just left. A manager eventually showed up to lock the doors until the restaurant could be staffed.
A child was shot in PPG Place on Sunday afternoon.
PITTSBURGH — A 1-year-old boy was shot and killed by PPG Place on Sunday afternoon, officers on scene confirmed to Channel 11.
Allegheny County 911 confirmed police and EMS responded to the 100 block of 4th Avenue.
During a press conference following the shooting, officials said the shooting was a targeted incident. The child was not the intended target, but a passenger in the car was.
One person was killed and another seven were injured after a shooting broke out during a Memorial Day festival in Oklahoma.
About 1,500 people were in attendance at the festival at the Old City Square in Taft, Oklahoma, about 45 miles southeast of Tulsa, when the shooting took place early Sunday, according to a statement from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
Witnesses told investigators the gunfire erupted after an argument took place just after midnight, authorities said. Two juveniles were among the injured.
The Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office was in attendance at the event and immediately rendered aid to the victims, authorities said. The identity of the deceased victim has not been released.
No suspects have been taken into custody, authorities said. Officials are asking anyone who may have a tip to contact the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
Additional information on the shooting was not immediately available.
ABC News’ Nicholas Kerr contributed to this report.
One person was transported to a hospital Saturday evening
PITTSBURGH —
A man was taken into custody Saturday evening after Mt. Lebanon police said he assaulted a mail carrier with a baseball bat in Mt. Lebanon before barricading himself inside a Pittsburgh home.
“Multiple attempts were made by officers, initial arriving officers, as well as officers from the city,” said acting police Chief Jason Haberman. “We coordinated a plan to attempt to get him to come out to speak, at which time, those attempts did not work.”
The suspect, 43-year-old Matthew Harrison, will face charges, including attempted homicide, police said.
According to court documents, the mail carrier told police he was facing his postal vehicle when he was hit in the head from behind with an object. The victim said he never had an issue with Harrison, and the two did not interact, prior to the attack, on Saturday.
Mt. Lebanon police said Harrison barricaded himself inside a home on Dorchester Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood for hours as SWAT officers tried to get him to surrender.
“When the suspect went into the house that crossed back into the city limits, I was notified. My officers were already on scene,” said Zone 6 Cmdr. Cristyn Zett. “We called out SWAT based on the seriousness of the crime and the fact that he barricaded. Officers already made attempts to reach him, ask him to step out and he wouldn’t respond to anything.”
Police said Pittsburgh SWAT made several attempts to lure Harrison out before obtaining warrants and entering the property to get him
(CNN)Two people were killed and three others are missing after two boats collided Saturday morning on the Wilmington River, in Georgia’s coastal Chatham County, officials said.
The two boats were traveling in opposite directions when they crashed, said Mark McKinnon, a spokesperson for the law enforcement division of Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources.
One of the two boats was carrying six passengers while the second carried three, McKinnon said. The other four people involved in the crash suffered minor injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital in Savannah.
“The identities of those involved is being withheld pending notification of family,” the spokesperson said.
Frantic children called 911 at least half a dozen times from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, pleading for police to intervene, as some 20 officers waited in the hallway nearly an hour before entering and killing the gunman, authorities said on Friday.
UVALDE, Texas, May 27 (Reuters) – Frantic children called 911 at least half a dozen times from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, pleading for police to intervene, as some 20 officers waited in the hallway nearly an hour before entering and killing the gunman, authorities said on Friday.
At least two children placed several emergency calls from a pair of adjoining fourth-grade classrooms after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered on Tuesday with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, according to Colonel Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Ramos, who had driven to Robb Elementary School from his home after shooting and wounding his grandmother there, went on to kill 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest U.S. school shooting in nearly a decade.
“He’s in room 112,” a girl whispered on the phone at 12:03 p.m., more than 45 minutes before a U.S. Border Patrol-led tactical team finally stormed in and ended the siege.
The on-site commander, the chief of the school district’s police department in Uvalde, Texas, believed at the time that Ramos was barricaded inside and that children were no longer at immediate risk, giving police time to prepare, McCraw said.
