3 dead, 2 injured in separate McKeesport shootings, police say

Three men were killed and two others injured in a pair of afternoon shootings in McKeesport that police say are not related.

Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified two of the three deceased late Wednesday night.

The first shooting was reported at 12:08 p.m. in the 3100 block of the city’s Versailles Avenue.

Allegheny County Police said first responders found a 47-year-old man there with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead, police said.

His identity was not yet available.

The second shooting happened near the No. 50 building in the Crawford Village housing complex around 1 p.m.

Police said first responders found three men shot there.

One was dead at the scene. Another man died at an area hospital after suffering a gunshot wound to the chest, while an 18-year-old man who was shot in the leg was taken to the hospital in stable condition, police said.

The deceased were identified as Jerred Dunkin, 22, of Turtle Creek and Jordan Eubanks, 30, of McKeesport.

Police said the two shootings are not connected.

McKeesport Area Senior High School, Founder’s Hall Middle School and Twin Rivers Elementary were placed on lockdowns following the shootings, the district said.

McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko issued a statement Wednesday night:

“We have had another senseless act of violence in our community today. This impacts every person in our community, and we need to pull together in search of a solution to this violence,” Cherepko wrote. “The hostility and bloodshed in our world today — not just here in the City of McKeesport — is more than a policing issue. It is a community issue, and that community is made up of every single one of us.

“Changing the circumstances that lead to these shootings — and curbing what I believe is an addiction to crime and violence — will only happen if we work together.

“That means coming together in our neighborhoods, our households, our churches, our community organizations, and all of the places where we become united as a community.”