Police: Rankin man charged in connection with fatal Knoxville shooting

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Police: Rankin man charged in connection with fatal Knoxville shooting

Patrick Varine | Monday, March 21, 2022 10:57 p.m.

WPXI-TV

Pittsburgh police investigate the scene of a fatal shooting near the intersection of Brownsville Road and Bausman Street in the city’s Knoxville neighborhood on Friday, March 18, 2922.

A 23-year-old Rankin man was arrested in connection with a fatal shooting Friday in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood.

Akeyba Sanchez was charged with criminal homicide and denied bail, according to court documents.

Zone 3 police officers on patrol near Brownsville Road and Bausman Street heard gunshots around 2:45 a.m. on Friday, said police spokeswoman Amanda Mueller.

Officers found one man who’d been shot in the head, Mueller said. He was pronounced dead a short time later at the hospital. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office identified him as Willis Brooks, 30, of Duquesne.

Sanchez is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on homicide, conspiracy and weapons charges at 8 a.m. April 8 in Pittsburgh Municipal Court.

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