Authorities name Hill District homicide victim, search for suspect

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Authorities name Hill District homicide victim, search for suspect

Justin Vellucci | Monday, November 17, 2025 2:48 p.m.

Courtesy of Pittsburgh Public Safety

Pittsburgh Public Safety said a man found shot multiple times in the 2400 block of Webster Avenue in the Hill District died at a hospital on Sunday.

Authorities Monday identified the man fatally shot over the weekend in Pittsburgh as a 35-year-old McKees Rocks resident.

Pittsburgh police said they found Philip T. Griffin laying in the street Sunday night in the city’s Hill District neighborhood, near the Bedford Dwellings development. He had been shot multiple times.

Officers were dispatched around 6 p.m. to the 2400 block of Webster Avenue after a report of shots being fired, Cara Cruz, a Pittsburgh police spokeswoman, said.

Paramedics took Griffin to UPMC Mercy hospital, where he died at 6:33 p.m., according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A potential suspect was seen running away down Somers Street after the shooting, Cruz said.

Detectives are reviewing “all available video footage from the area” as they search for the suspect, she said.

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