Man pleads guilty to fatal shooting outside Kennedy bowling alley

A Spring Hill man pleaded guilty on Monday to killing a woman outside a Kennedy Township bowling alley last year.

Malik Smith, 20, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and a single firearms count before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jennifer Satler.

He will be sentenced on Oct. 26. There is no agreement as to sentencing.

According to Allegheny County police, the incident happened at Kennedy Lanes on Pine Hollow Road on Oct. 16.

Police were called to the business just before 10:30 p.m. for a report of two people having been shot.

A male victim was taken to an area hospital in stable condition. A woman who was shot, Deprincess Perkins, 35, died.

Surveillance video from inside showed the two victims walking into the alley minutes before the shooting. The man appeared to stop and talk to people in lanes 1 and 2, and then went with Perkins to lanes 15 and 16.

A few minutes later, Perkins realized she left her wallet in her car, and the two walked out to retrieve it, police said.

It was then that they heard shots. They tried to take cover on the driver’s side. Perkins sustained multiple gunshot wounds and died.

The man was also shot multiple times in both legs.

According to the criminal complaint, the passenger side of Perkins’ black Acura MDX had numerous bullet holes in it, and investigators recovered a total 14 spent .9 mm casings.

Smith was detained by Kennedy police as he fled the scene. He later admitted that the man he had fired at had stolen Smith’s mother’s gun a couple months before the shooting.

Smith told police that the man said something about the stolen gun as he walked into the bowling alley.