Justin Vellucci stories, Page 37
3 hurt in North Braddock crash
Three people were hospitalized Monday afternoon after a head-on crash in North Braddock. The two vehicles involved crashed near Lincoln Highway and Electric Avenue around 12:20 p.m., Allegheny County Police said. Three people were taken to area hospitals in stable condition, police said. Police did not identify them. Police are...
Bedford Dwellings death ruled a homicide
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the Jan. 27 death of a woman in Pittsburgh’s Bedford Dwellings as a homicide. Markeyta Daniels, 24, of the North Side, was found unresponsive in a residence in the 2200 block of Somers Drive around 1 a.m. and later pronounced dead, the...
Police investigate suspicious death of Mt. Lebanon man
Allegheny County police said they are investigating a suspicious death in Mt. Lebanon. At 2:58 p.m. Saturday, Mt. Lebanon Police responded to the 200 block of Academy Avenue for reports of a dead man whose body had been discovered by a family member. Police said they found trauma to the...
West Mifflin man get 15 to 35 years for beating mother to death, leaving her to die
A West Mifflin man was sentenced Thursday to 15 to 35 years in prison for violently beating his 80-year-old mother and leaving her to die in their basement in 2019. Kenneth Burdick, 45, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to third-degree murder in the death of Dolores Burdick. Heath Leff, a...
Pittsburgh woman charged in fentanyl death of her 7-month-old granddaughter
Allegheny County police charged a second person in connection with the fatal fentanyl poisoning of a 7-month-old Penn Hills infant — the girl’s grandmother. Barbara Ann Dunlap-Toombs, 66, of Larimer, turned herself in to sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday. She is charged with involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of children and...
5 injured in head-on crash involving car, Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus
At least five people were injured when a man drove his car head-on into a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus Wednesday morning on the North Side, according to the transit agency. The driver hit the inbound 8 Perrysville bus around 10 a.m. near Cedar Avenue and Suismon Street in East Allegheny,...
Family of man who died after being tackled by Beaver County police officer settles wrongful death suit for $950K
The sister of a Beaver County man who died in November after being tackled by a Center Township police officer has settled with the officer and the township for $950,000. Deborah Little agreed Thursday to the nearly $1 million settlement, 40% of which was attributed to the wrongful death of...
Highland Park residents call on Pittsburgh officials to close nearby police firing rangeVideo
A Highland Park community group called on Pittsburgh officials Tuesday to shut down the city police force’s nearby open-air firing range, calling the sound of gunfire emanating from the 40-year-old facility “a public health issue.” “We want (police) to get their training but it’s not a comforting sound — it’s...
No major incidents during marathon weekend in Pittsburgh, officials say
There were “no major safety or security incidents” during a busy May weekend in Pittsburgh, which included the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon, three Pittsburgh Pirates games, and Cinco de Mayo celebrations, Pittsburgh public safety officials said Monday. The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS, and Pittsburgh Bureau...
Tarentum man receives probation for child-related incidents
An Allegheny County judge sentenced a Tarentum man to five years of probation for incidents involving a child over a period of years. Craig Lombardi, 40, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three charges related to the assaults — corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of children and simple assault — in...
North Side man get 15 years in federal prison for Ross bank robbery
A man from Pittsburgh’s North Side was sentenced this week to 15 years in federal prison for his role in a 2016 armed bank robbery in Ross. Albert Clemons, then 64, robbed a First Niagara Bank in the 4800 block of McKnight Road on March 2, 2016, and then led...
West Mifflin man deemed fugitive more than a year ago arrested by sheriff’s detectives
A West Mifflin man wanted on firearms and assault charges was arrested Thursday, according to the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office. Malik Banks, 25, was deemed a fugitive in April 2022 after he failed to appear in court on a firearms charge, Sheriff Kevin M. Kraus said. Pittsburgh police also charged...
Pittsburgh man pleads guilty to 2019 birthday party murder in Homewood, gets 10 to 20 years
A Pittsburgh man who pleaded guilty Thursday to killing another city man at a Homewood birthday party in 2019 was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. Geron Anderson, 28, of Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and a firearms charge in connection with the death of...
Larry Scirotto nominated to become Pittsburgh’s next police chief
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has nominated Larry Scirotto to be the city’s next police chief. The nomination, announced Wednesday to a large crowd gathered at the City-County Building in Downtown, needs City Council approval to become official. “Every candidate we interviewed was great, (but) Larry rose to the top. His...
Police seek woman for questioning about fatal McKeesport shooting
Allegheny County Police said they are looking for a woman whose apartment was the scene of a homicide Monday. Police said Lindsey Jackson, 37, may own or rent the apartment in the 600 block of McKeesport’s Evans Avenue where a man was shot around 9 p.m. Police said they would...
Authorities arrest Pittsburgh fugitive accused of mocking police online for not being able to catch him
A Pittsburgh man accused of taunting authorities while on the run for the past 45 days was arrested late Monday morning, according to Allegheny County Sheriff Kevin M. Kraus. Kwaun Elliot, 24, was deemed a fugitive March 14 after authorities said he used a fourth-floor fire escape window to flee...
Family of man who died after being shocked by Taser reaches $8M settlement with Pittsburgh
The family of a homeless man who died after being shocked with a Taser by Pittsburgh police at least 10 times in less than four minutes has reached an $8 million settlement with the City of Pittsburgh in its wrongful death lawsuit, an attorney said Thursday. Jim Rogers, 54, died...
Police: Woman used Washington County hair salon as prostitution base
Pennsylvania State Police say a Burgettstown woman was selling sex acts at a Washington County hair salon. Amy E. Zlobin, 51, was charged April 20 with prostitution, Trooper Rocco Gagliardi said Wednesday. In April, Hanover Township police said they received multiple complaints about possible prostitution happening at Embellish Hair Cuts,...
Court: Robinson Township did not use eminent domain appropriately
A lawyer representing Robinson Township maintained Wednesday that local officials had safety in mind when they seized part of a developer’s property by eminent domain to make improvements at a Steubenville Pike intersection. “It was a bad signalization from the beginning,” attorney John F. Cambest said of the intersection’s traffic...
Man who left neglected dogs in abandoned house sentenced to probation
A Penn Hills man was sentenced to two years of probation Tuesday for keeping seven pit bull-mix dogs in “deplorable” conditions both in and outside a vacant house in Pittsburgh, authorities said. Barr Jamil Tomlin, 51, pleaded guilty before Allegheny Common Pleas Judge Susan F. Evashavik DiLucente Tuesday on 14...
Pittsburgh man killed in Homewood shooting ID’d by medical examiner
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner has identified the Pittsburgh man killed in a shooting early Monday in Homewood. Jaylen J. Martin, 24, died at an area hospital at 4:25 a.m. Monday after being transported there in critical condition, police and the medical examiner said. He was found in the 7200...
Fire chief to headline Zoom session on emergency management, rail disasters
Pittsburgh Fire Chief Darryl Jones will headline a Zoom session at 6 p.m. Thursday on whether an East Palestine-style rail disaster could happen in Pittsburgh, as well as how city officials are preparing for it. The first part of the town hall — organized by Southwest PA Grassroots Resident-Led Air...
Wilkinsburg man wanted on parole violation taken into custody
A Wilkinsburg man accused of violence against women has been taken into custody. Laron Robinson, 33, was wanted on a probation violation involving a 2022 case where he pleaded guilty to strangulation and making terroristic threats, Sheriff Kevin M. Kraus said Saturday. Robinson also is facing an active warrant from...
‘Living history’ unfolds during reenactors’ training session on the Kiski RiverVideo
Nine years ago, IT consultant John Stevenson brought some antique firearms into a Pittsburgh-area gun shop, where a man invited him to a Civil War reenactment. The rest, as they say, is history. Stevenson — who’s been taking part ever since in historically accurate reenactments that organizers call “living history”...
2 teens arrested in shooting death of Pittsburgh high school student
Pittsburgh Police have arrested two teens in the fatal shooting of an Oliver Citywide Academy student last year. Police charged Eugene Watson, 18, and his brother, Brandon Watson, 17, both of the city’s Crafton Heights neighborhood, with criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy, and two firearms violations. They are both charged as...
