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Authorities name Hill District homicide victim, search for suspect

Justin Vellucci
By Justin Vellucci
1 Min Read Nov. 17, 2025 | 1 month Ago
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Authorities Monday identified the man fatally shot over the weekend in Pittsburgh as a 35-year-old McKees Rocks resident.

Pittsburgh police said they found Philip T. Griffin laying in the street Sunday night in the city’s Hill District neighborhood, near the Bedford Dwellings development. He had been shot multiple times.

Officers were dispatched around 6 p.m. to the 2400 block of Webster Avenue after a report of shots being fired, Cara Cruz, a Pittsburgh police spokeswoman, said.

Paramedics took Griffin to UPMC Mercy hospital, where he died at 6:33 p.m., according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A potential suspect was seen running away down Somers Street after the shooting, Cruz said.

Detectives are reviewing “all available video footage from the area” as they search for the suspect, she said.

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Justin Vellucci is a TribLive reporter covering crime and public safety in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. A longtime freelance journalist and former reporter for the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, he worked as a general assignment reporter at the Trib from 2006 to 2009 and returned in 2022. He can be reached at jvellucci@triblive.com.

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