Police: Man shot in Pittsburgh’s Strip District dies
WPXI-TV
The scene from a shooting along Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Strip District on Sunday night.
A man shot Sunday night in Pittsburgh’s Strip District has died, according to Pittsburgh Police.
Police responded shortly after 9 p.m. to Penn Avenue for a ShotSpotter alert, police spokesman Maurice Matthews said in a statement.
Officers arrived and found a man who had been shot in the head, Matthews said.
Medics transported the man to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, Matthews said.
The shooting happened along a busy section of Penn Avenue, across the street from Pittsburgh Winery, and shut down the street until about 11 p.m. Sunday.
Remove the ads from your TribLIVE reading experience but still support the journalists who create the content with TribLIVE Ad-Free.