Police are seeking the public’s help to find a 17-year-old Brighton Heights girl wanted in connection to the robbery-related death of a Pittsburgh man, officials said Wednesday.

Shayla Johnson — who also has ties to McKeesport and Duquesne — is a suspect in the homicide case of Julian Carpenter.

Carpenter, 24, was shot during a July 2 robbery at an apartment on Rhine Street in Pittsburgh’s Spring Hill neighborhood. Police allege that she was a friend of Carpenter’s who lured him there.

Johnson initially was charged with criminal conspiracy and criminal use of a phone, court records show.

She now faces homicide charges, Pittsburgh public safety spokesman Chris Togneri said.

Carpenter died on Monday, nearly four months after the shooting.

Earlier this week, Pittsburgh police said that Carpenter was shot by Onaje Dickinson, 20, of Pittsburgh.

Dickinson was killed two weeks later in Penn Hills by a police officer investigating a similar robbery, records show.

Carpenter apparently thought that he was meeting Johnson, whom police described as a friend, but was instead robbed and shot, court records show.

The gun used to shoot Carpenter matched the gun found in Penn Hills in the July 14 officer-involved shooting death of Dickinson.

Dickinson was shot and killed by Penn Hills police Officer Jared Rothert, who returned fire after Dickinson fired three shots while hiding in a basement, police said.

Police had been searching for Dickinson because they suspected he was tied to another robbery.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. found Rothert acted properly when he used his weapon. Dickinson used similar tactics in several robberies since May, Zappala said.

Officials asked anyone with information about the case or whereabouts of Shayla Johnson to call Pittsburgh detectives at 412-323-7800.

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