A man who walked into a Pittsburgh area hospital with a gunshot wound has died.
City police spokesman Maurice Matthews said officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert for a shooting around 7 p.m. Wednesday along the 500 block of Norton Street in Mt. Washington.
Responding officers discovered a vehicle that had been struck by a bullet, Matthews reported.
A person with a gunshot wound later walked in to a nearby hospital while officers were investigating the scene. He subsequently died there.
Matthews said the victim was shot along Norton Street, and the incident remains under investigation.
The victim was later identified as 16-year-old Tanner J. Morton of Pittsburgh by the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office.
No further information was released.
Anyone with information about the shooting should contact Pittsburgh police at 412-323-7800.
