PITTSBURGH — A man died Tuesday after he was shot multiple times in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, police said.
The 20-year-old man, who the medical examiner identified as Shaquan Johnson, of Homewood, was shot shortly after 1 a.m. in the 7900 block of Inglenook Place, according to Pittsburgh Public Information Officer Sonya Toler.
He was taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital and later pronounced dead.
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During the gunfire, a car was also struck, Toler said.
No arrests have been made. Homicide detectives are investigating.
Channel 11 talked to one person who is worried about violence in his former neighborhood.
Rev. William King Jr. now lives and pastors a church in Ohio, but he grew up in Homewood and said violence never used to be a problem there.
Unfortunately, that has changed.
“It’s been years of deterioration,” he said. “Just years of change, years of not being kept.”
The pastor said he grew up on Inglenook Place and said a lot of great people lived there and still do.
But that hasn’t stopped an increase in crime there.
“We have to do a lot better than what we’re doing now,” he said. “We can’t have young people shooting each other down in the street like dogs. We’re not dogs. We’re God’s creation.”