Pittsburgh’s homicide rate is nowhere close to Chicago’s and other large Urban Cities but the percentages of Black lives, especially Black males are the same. At least Pittsburgh Black communities have recognized street and domestic violence as a serious problem and have started working toward a solution. But thus far that outrage, marches, and rallies are not occurring in other cities. We must continue the fight to bring this fight to the front in the Black struggle for survival.—Ulish Carter
May homicides (8)
May 1—Gerald Harris, a 19-year-old Black male, was shot multiple times in a vacant house on Divinity Street in Pittsburgh’s North Side. No arrests have been made. The investigation is ongoing.
May 1—Isha Tyree, a 20-year-old Black female, was shot multiple times as she sat in her car outside a vacant house on Divinity Street in Pittsburgh’s North Side. No arrests have been made. The investigation is ongoing.
May 15—Darshele Johnson, a 41-year-old Black male was found shot multiple times outside a home on Graham Boulevard extension in Penn Hills. Police said he had just exited his car when someone in a white Cadillac drove up and shot him. Johnson had previously been charged in the shooting death of Christopher Moss in 2014. The investigation continues.
May 25—Thomas Cheeks, a 40-year-old Black male was fatally shot during a home invasion at his Crafton Heights home. His wife and son were home at the time but were not harmed. The two gunmen also killed the family dog. No arrests have been made. The investigation is ongoing.
May 26—Tamar Taylor, a 26-year-old Black male, was shot multiple times as he sat in his car on Bellanca Avenue. Police have charged 29-year-old Daevon Plowden with the homicide. He is currently in the Allegheny County Jail.
May 27—Dehnad Taiedi, a 78-year-old Iranian, was shot once in the head at the front desk of the motel he owned on Rte. 51 in Jefferson Hills, in what police said was an apparent robbery. No arrests have been made. The investigation is ongoing.
May 27—Mark Lopata, a 35-year-old White male was found beaten and fatally shot in his Elliot apartment. Police have charged his roommate, 28-year-old Robert Hunter in the death. Hunter is in the Allegheny County jail.
May 28—Delores Alviani, a 70-year-old White female was found by police fatally shot in a bedroom of her Bloomfield home along with her 79-year-old husband Louis, also deceased, in what police said was a murder-suicide.
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