Surveillance video captures brutal beating on Pittsburgh’s South Side

PITTSBURGH — Channel 11 has obtained disturbing new video of a violent beating on a sidewalk in Pittsburgh’s South Side.

Surveillance video from a home in the South Side showed the brutal attack, where a man was hit with a brick, and then punched over and over again.

At first, you hear the yelling and screaming — and see a crowd of people running down 14th Street from East Carson to Bingham.

11 News zoomed in so you can see the next part — when someone in the street throws a brick and hits a man in the head.

That man collapses to the ground, then another man begins punching him over and over again.

Several people run past him until someone finally comes to help.

Then — you hear a popping sound in the distance.

And another man runs into the frame, pulls out a gun, and fires it.

“The fighting, and even beating somebody’s head into the ground. You don’t realize that this isn’t a simple fight, you can actually kill someone that way,” said Christie Ford, who works in the South Side.

“I don’t know exactly what needs to change, but I hope the city does something to change the situation down here,” Ford said.

Police tell us they don’t think the shooting and the assault are related.

The victim has a serious head injury.

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