14-year-old on probation accused of fatally shooting Carrick teen

A 14-year-old boy, who the police say shed his GPS ankle monitor after shooting and killing another teen in Carrick earlier this week, turned himself in on Wednesday.

Nigel Thompson, 14, of Carrick, who Pittsburgh police is charged with criminal homicide and three weapons counts. He was in the Allegheny County Jail, police said Wednesday.

At 10:01 p.m. Monday, Pittsburgh police responded to the 100 block of Parkfield Street in Carrick for a shooting, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Tribune-Review. A teen, later identified as Damonte Hardrick, 17, of Carrick, suffered a gunshot wound to the head. He died at the scene at 10:10 p.m.

While securing the scene, two 9mm cartridge casings were recovered, the criminal complaint said.

UPDATE 2: Nigel Thompson is in custody after turning himself in to police. He is currently in the ACJ. https://t.co/4CLeqgaX5C

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Detective Robert Shaw said in the complaint that police developed investigative leads identifying Thompson as a potential suspect. At the time of the shooting, police learned, Thompson was wearing an electronic home monitoring device equipped with global positioning system (GPS) and was being monitored by Allegheny County Juvenile Probation.

That evidence indicated Thompson was at a home on Parkfield Street at 9:58 p.m. Monday.

Over the course of 14 minutes, according to the complaint, Thompson left his home at 9:51 p.m., went to Parkfield Street — the location of the shooting — from 9:58 to 9:59 p.m., then returned home from 10:05 to 10:12 p.m. The entire route is less than one mile.

Pittsburgh-maintained video surveillance on the 1900 block of Brownsville Road showed an individual walking westbound across Brownsville Road, about a third of a mile from Thompson’s home, Shaw’s report said. The individual crossed the street near a gap between 1906 and 1912 Brownsville Road, which police said is “within the lane of travel to the homicide scene.”

Video footage from Carrick High School showed an individual stop by Parkfield Street, where two muzzle flashes can be observed, according to the criminal complaint. This lone individual subsequently fled the scene.

During a search of Thompson’s home, detectives found the GPS home monitoring device, which they said Thompson removed from his ankle after the shooting, police said. They also found video from the home that depicted an individual “whose appearance is consistent with the individual depicted on cameras leading toward to the shooting.”

Witnesses identified that individual as Thompson, police said.