U.S. Marshals arrest man wanted in fatal Wilkinsburg shooting

U.S. Marshals on Friday arrested an Edgewood man wanted for an alleged homicide in Wilkinsburg earlier this year, authorities said.

Tieriq Pinnix, 27, faces homicide and other charges in connection with the Aug. 31 killing of Marque Yellets.

Police responded to a home on Penn Avenue in Wilkinsburg shortly before 11 p.m. the night of the shooting for a report of a home invasion, according to the criminal complaint against Pinnix. Officers arrived and found 29-year-old Yellets dead on the ground along Superior Street. Police noted he was wearing a ski mask.

Security footage from the area shows two men – later identified as Yellets and Pinnix – headed west toward Summit Street toward the 1600 block of Penn Avenue around 10:40 p.m., according to the complaint. Yellets is seen carrying a ski mask in his left hand. Footage from six minutes later shows Pinnix running back toward Summit Street with “what appears to be a handgun in his right hand and a cellphone in his left hand up to his ear,” police wrote.

The 911 call for the home invasion was made around 10:47 p.m., police said. A woman reported two Black men accosted her and went into her home. She said one of the men had a gun.

According to the complaint, police showed the security footage to a witness who identified both Yellets and Pinnix. The witness, Yellets’s stepfather, said Pinnix used to live with him and used to date his daughter.

Detectives later obtained Pinnix’s cellphone records, and an analysis showed that he was in the area where Yellets was shot at the same time as the shooting, according to the complaint.

Allegheny County police applied for the warrant for Pinnix Sept. 5, and he had been considered a fugitive ever since.

The U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force received a tip that Pinnix was staying in the Lincoln-Lemington section of Pittsburgh, and he was taken into custody on Meadow Street on Friday morning.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for December.