THE SCENE IN WILKINSBURG WHERE A SHOOTING CLAIMED THE LIFE OF 16-YEAR-OLD KEVIN WILSON, MARCH 31.
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‘This is not a way that a community should live,’ Tim Stevens says
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As the spring has begun, unfortunately, there have been a number of shootings in recent days that have killed African American teens and men.
A shooting in Wilkinsburg on Easter Sunday night, March 31, purportedly preceded by an argument and fight amongst women on Hill Avenue, led to gunshots being fired and a 16-year-old teen being struck, Kevin Wilson. He died at the hospital.
The next night, April 1, a large fight involving many juveniles was occurring in Braddock on Margaretta Street when shots rang out, killing another 16-year-old, Jeramyah Pollard, a 10th grader at Woodland Hills High School. A second teen was also struck by the gunfire.
On Saturday, March 30, a 30-year-old man, Lamont Nichols, was shot and killed, police say, by a 24-year-old woman at the Truman Tower in Duquesne.
The three shooting deaths in 48 hours doesn’t include the shooting of who police believe was a juvenile in Larimer in broad daylight, Monday, April 1, two adult males shot inside an apartment in Knoxville, Thursday,...
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