Coroner IDs 2 victims fatally shot in Pittsburgh's Hill District
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified two people killed Wednesday following a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood.
Robert Lee Freeman, Jr., 33, of Pittsburgh, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head at 3:09 a.m. in the 2300 block of Webster Avenue, after Pittsburgh police responded to a 16-round ShotSpotter alert there, authorities said. He died at the scene.
Multiple gunshot wounds caused Freeman’s death, the medical examiner said. His death was deemed a homicide.
Cameron Blue-Gray, 16, of Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood, also was found unresponsive at the scene and suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest, authorities said. He was taken to UPMC Mercy hospital, where he died at about 4 a.m.
The medical examiner had not determined Blue-Gray’s cause or manner of death, as of Thursday morning.
The police bureau’s Violent Crime Unit detectives are investigating, police spokeswoman Cara Cruz said. No arrests have been announced.
Justin Vellucci is a TribLive reporter covering crime and public safety in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. A longtime freelance journalist and former reporter for the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, he worked as a general assignment reporter at the Trib from 2006 to 2009 and returned in 2022. He can be reached at jvellucci@triblive.com.
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