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3 shot at Pittsburgh Brashear High School

November 13, 2013 4:08 PM

Bob Donaldson / Post-Gazette

Police activity at the intersection of Crane and Lowenhill near Brashear High School after a reported shooting.

By Molly Born and Eleanor Chute / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Three people were shot at Pittsburgh Brashear High School in Beechview this afternoon, an Allegheny County dispatch supervisor said.

Police and K-9 units are searching the nearby woods for the shooter, the dispatcher supervisor said.

Police said three men dressed in black were reported shooting toward the school from a hill above.

All three people were shot outside, police said. A bullet grazed one person. The conditions of the other two people shot was not known, police said. An Allegheny General Hospital spokesman confirmed one male high school student was a patient and that his condition was considered stable.

Several streets nearby have been closed, including Crane Avenue at Fallowfield Avenue and Dagmar Avenue. Traffic was at a standstill just before 3:30 p.m.

The shooting at 590 Crane Ave. was reported about 2:50 p.m., the supervisor said. The school day there ends at 2:46 p.m.

Brashear is Pittsburgh Public Schools' largest high school by enrollment with 1,416 students. A portion of the same building houses South Hills Middle School, which has 580 students.

Pittsburgh Public Schools spokesman Ebony Pugh said the three people shot were taken for hospital treatment but that none of the injuries appears to be life-threatening.

She said South Hills Middle School students were still in their building, which used to be part of the high school building, and were in lockdown. Their regular dismissal time is 3:51, and she anticipated they might be dismissed on time.

Nick LoRusso, of Beechview, was standing in his backyard two streets uphill from Brashear when he heard a boom and what he said sounded like seven or eight shots from a semi-automatic weapon.
Then he heard sirens.

Pittsburgh Public Schools board president Sharene Shealey said, "It's just really sad that children can't go to school and be safe. I hope they catch whoever did this. I hope those kids are OK, and I'm praying for their families."

School board member Sherry Hazuda's backyard abuts the woods where the suspect or suspects were being sought. Her district includes Brashear.

"It's horrible," she said, adding, "I am praying for the kids. They need to be OK ... It's just sad."

Robert Zullo and Lexi Belculfine contributed. First Published November 13, 2013 3:11 PM

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Pittsburgh high school shooting: 3 shot near Brashear High School; 5 suspects in custody

Five suspects are in custody after three gunmen wearing all black fired shots near Brashear High School in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, striking three students.

BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN AND NINA GOLGOWSKI / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2013, 3:24 PM
UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2013, 5:30 PM

WPXI

A suspect is seen being arested in the shooting near Pittsburgh's Brashear High School late Wednesday afternoon.

Five suspects are in custody after three high school students were shot just outside Pittsburgh's Brashear High School just minutes after school let out, said police.
Cops said three men wearing all black came out of woods and fired off shots before retreating into woods at about 2:50 p.m., acording to WPXI-TV.
Two of the students wounded are said to be aged 17. A third is 16, according to the station which described them as three friends.

WPXI

Police said five people were taken into custody, one seen here. Their relation to the shooting that injured three students was not released.


Pittsburgh school district spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said the students' injuries appear to be non-life-threatening. Two of them were grazed in the head and one was shot in both the foot and arm. It’s not clear who shot them.
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Terri Minor identified her 17-year-old nephew, Eugene Minor, a junior at the school, as one of the three victims.
WPXI

A third suspect is seen being led away from the Beechview neighborhood. Police believe the shooting was in 'retaliation' for an event that happened on Oct. 18.


She told CBS that he was shot in the shoulder and the neck before hospitalized conscious and alert, and in stable condition. The second 17-year-old was hospitalized after a bullet grazed his head, said Minor.
The five suspects' involvement in the shooting has not been released by police. One young man was seen arrested outside a nearby home around 4:30 p.m., before two others were also seen.


Police spokesperson Diane Richard told reporters that they believe the shooting was "in retaliation" for an incident that happened on Oct. 18.
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Brashear, a magnet school, is the largest school in Pittsburgh located about two miles south of downtown. One of the suspects is seen being guided into a police car.


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Pugh said the students were shot as they walked to a vehicle they’d all taken to school earlier in the day.
Witnesses said the suspected shooters may have jumped into a car after the bullets rang out.
KDKA- TV/AP

Police and medics swarmed around Brashear High School on Monday after a shooting in Pittsburgh.


Police continued to scoure a wooded area near the school, which is home to almost 1,500 students and said they recovered shotgun shells near the scene.
According to witnesses at least one injured student was found bleeding in the school’s gymnasium, though the victims were not on school property when shot, but were close by, said Pugh.
WPXI

Police surrounded a house near Brashear High School where three were shot.


One of the vicitms was taken to nearby Allegheny Hospital in stable condition, a spokewoman told The News.
Brashear, a magnet school, is the largest school in Pittsburgh located about two miles south of downtown.
According to Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Linda Lane both Brashear High School and South Hills will be open Thursday but "on modified lockdown for the remainder of the week."
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A map showing Brashear High School in Pittburgh where three people were reportedly shot.


“A modified lockdown means that only students, staff, and visitors with a scheduled appointment will be able to enter the school building," she said in a release. "We are taking this matter seriously and focusing on the safety of our students. Our thoughts go out to the families of the victims."
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Pittsburgh high school shooting: 3 shot near Brashear High School; 6 people questioned

Five men and one woman are being questioned after three gunmen wearing all black fired shots near Brashear High School in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, striking three students. Police say they are investigating whether the shooting was over a drug-related dispute.


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