PITTSBURGH — A 19-year-old turned himself in to police Thursday evening in connection with the fatal shooting of a North Side teenager last weekend, police said.
Eietyoung Kemp faces charges of criminal homicide, carrying a firearm without a license, reckless endangerment and tampering with physical evidence in the death of Robert Alston, officials said.
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Alston, 19, died Saturday night after he was driven to Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC with a gunshot wound to his chest, according to authorities.
The vehicle in which Alston was driven to the hospital in had a bullet hole in the front passenger seat, police spokeswoman Sonya Toler said.
Kemp told detectives that he was sitting behind Alston in the car and was trying to adjust the gun in his waistband when it fired through the seat, police said. He admitted to walking across the Roberto Clemente Bridge and throwing the gun in the river.
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