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Pittsburgh Police make arrest in Downtown shooting

Emergency lights of a police vehicle
Matt Rourke
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AP
Emergency lights of a police vehicle

Pittsburgh Police made an arrest Thursday evening following a mid-afternoon shooting Downtown.

Police arrested 18-year-old Erique Collington and charged him with criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy and weapons charges.

The shooting occurred shortly after 2 p.m. in the 700 block of Liberty Avenue Downtown, where the busy Wood Street Station is located.

Pittsburgh EMS transported an adult male with multiple gunshot wounds to a hospital, where he later died.

On Friday morning, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office identified the victim as 23-year-old Eugene Nance.

Police say they “caught up with two adult male suspects on the lower North Side and detained them for questioning,” and recovered three firearms.

Updated: January 20, 2023 at 8:16 AM EST
Updated to add the name of the victim.
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