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Pittsburgh police probe Northview Heights infant’s death

Jonathan D. Silver
By Jonathan D. Silver
1 Min Read Dec. 16, 2023 | 2 years Ago
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Pittsburgh police are investigating the death Saturday of a newborn.

First responders were dispatched Friday around 11:36 p.m. to the boy’s home in the 600 block of Mt. Pleasant Road in the Northview Heights neighborhood for a report of an infant in distress.

The 5-day-old baby, Jah’Shawn O. Martin, was unresponsive, police said.

He was taken to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, where he was pronounced dead at 3:16 a.m.

The cause and manner of death are pending review by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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Jonathan D. Silver is a TribLive news editor. A New York City native and graduate of Cornell University, he spent 26 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as a reporter and editor before joining the Trib in 2022 as an enterprise reporter. Jon has also worked as a journalist in Venezuela, England, Wisconsin and California. He can be reached at jsilver@triblive.com.

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