Pittsburgh teen arrested in connection with deadly shooting in Allentown

Authorities arrested a Pittsburgh teen Thursday who they say was wanted in connection with a fatal shooting last week in the city’s Allentown neighborhood.

Diontae Carter, 17, was taken into custody without incident after being sought in the killing of Mohamed Hussein, 15, on Sept. 19, police spokeswoman Cara Cruz said. He faces charges as an adult of criminal homicide, robbery, carrying a firearm without a license and possession of a firearm by a minor.

Carter was apprehended by Pittsburgh police detectives, the bureau’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit and the U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force and taken to Allegheny County Jail, Cruz said. He had not been arraigned as of Thursday afternoon, court records showed.

The court records did not list an attorney for Carter.

Cruz declined to comment on whether Carter had killed Hussein because of Hussein’s involvement in an earlier double shooting in Braddock.

“I can tell you he lives in Pittsburgh and was arrested on Mt. Washington,” Cruz told the Tribune-Review. “I can’t speak to possible motive.”

Authorities confirmed to the Trib last week that Hussein was linked to the Aug. 27 shooting in Braddock that claimed the lives of two Woodland Hills High School seniors.

Hussein was shot in the torso on Excelsior Street in Allentown around 10:45 a.m. Sept. 19 and died later that day at a hospital, Pittsburgh police said.

The same day, Allegheny County Police filed homicide charges in the Braddock shooting against Jerell Rockymore, 16, who they say killed Rimel Williamson and Nazir Parker, two 17-year-old boys who had just entered their senior year at Woodland Hills High School.

Rockymore is being held in Allegheny County Jail after being denied bail last week, court records show. He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Friday.

A criminal complaint filed against Rockymore said that he conspired with Hussein in the Braddock shooting. No charges were filed against Hussein.