Man stomped in November assault dies, Pittsburgh police investigating as homicide

A man who was stomped into critical condition in a Hill District home in November died this week, according to Pittsburgh police, turning an assault investigation into a homicide case.

Raymone Curry, 27, was still awaiting a preliminary hearing for the alleged assault of Gregory Hill on Nov. 12 when Hill, 60, was taken off life support on Sunday, according to court records and police reports.

Curry was arrested outside a house on Webster Avenue the night of the assault after police and paramedics responded to a 911 call from the home, according to the complaint.

Police said that when they arrived at the home they were immediately met by Curry on the front steps and a woman screaming inside, according to the complaint. Officers said Curry was holding a large, orange ashtray and yelling at them. He continued to shout and act menacingly, eventually telling officers, “Put me in handcuffs now before something bad happens to police,” according to the complaint.

The front door of the home was dented. Its glass had been shattered, police wrote in the complaint. Inside, officers spotted a man later identified as the 60-year-old Hill lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

Asked by officers what happened, a witness inside the home claimed he didn’t see what happened but said, “I think he was stomped,” according to the complaint.

A teen who was in the home at the time told police she saw Curry standing over Hill, stomping him, police wrote in the complaint.

Investigators would later find blood on Curry’s right shoe, authorities said.

Curry said he’d been asleep on the couch in the home for three hours and when he woke up, Hill, his mother’s boyfriend, was inexplicably injured and on the ground, according to the complaint.

Police took Curry into custody, and he allegedly tried to kick out the back window of a patrol car en route to the Allegheny County Jail. He’s remained in the jail since, unable to post $250,000 bail.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 26.