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Coroner IDs 2 victims fatally shot in Pittsburgh’s Hill District

Justin Vellucci
By Justin Vellucci
1 Min Read Oct. 5, 2023 | 2 years Ago
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The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified two people killed Wednesday following a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood.

Robert Lee Freeman, Jr., 33, of Pittsburgh, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head at 3:09 a.m. in the 2300 block of Webster Avenue, after Pittsburgh police responded to a 16-round ShotSpotter alert there, authorities said. He died at the scene.

Multiple gunshot wounds caused Freeman’s death, the medical examiner said. His death was deemed a homicide.

Cameron Blue-Gray, 16, of Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood, also was found unresponsive at the scene and suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest, authorities said. He was taken to UPMC Mercy hospital, where he died at about 4 a.m.

The medical examiner had not determined Blue-Gray’s cause or manner of death, as of Thursday morning.

The police bureau’s Violent Crime Unit detectives are investigating, police spokeswoman Cara Cruz said. No arrests have been announced.

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Justin Vellucci is a TribLive reporter covering crime and public safety in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. A longtime freelance journalist and former reporter for the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, he worked as a general assignment reporter at the Trib from 2006 to 2009 and returned in 2022. He can be reached at jvellucci@triblive.com.

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