Police Arrest Suspect In Penn Avenue ShootingPolice: Penn Ave. Killing, Boy's Wilkinsburg Death May Be LinkedPOSTED: 12:16 am EDT September 23,
2008 PITTSBURGH -- One of the central figures in a high-profile child homicide was shot to death himself at a gas station in the Point Breeze neighborhood -- just blocks away from the scene of that earlier killing -- and police are investigating the possibility of a link.Police have now arrested a suspect in that shooting.  Watch Jake Ploeger's ReportPittsburgh police say they arrested 19-year-old Jesse Engram in connection with the death of 20-year-old Korey Johnson. Somebody walked up to the driver's side of a purple GMC Yukon and shot him several times at the A-Plus Sunoco on Penn Avenue around 11 p.m. Monday.Officers from the Port Authority police department who were inside the gas station's convenience store chased Johnson's killer toward East End Avenue. A perimeter was briefly set up around the area, but the search proved unsuccessful.The shooting happened after someone who was with Johnson got out of the SUV and went inside the store, police said.A criminal complaint from the Allegheny County police department lists Johnson as one of the intended targets in an April 18 shootout that killed 12-year-old Kholen Germany at the From Head 2 Toe clothing store on Wood Street, just over the city line in Wilkinsburg.Germany's mother, Orissa Bey, told Channel 4 Action News she doesn't think Johnson's death was a retaliatory act, and it doesn't give here a feeling of justice."It's a shame," Bey said. "There's no justice in this shooting. It just leaves all these families in turmoil."Donald "Tank" Wilson, 19, of Homewood, is charged with homicide and Kevin Lamont Johnson, 23, also of Homewood, is accused of firearms violations related to the shooting of Germany, an innocent victim who ducked inside the store seeking shelter from the bullets.Police said more than one person fired a gun that day, and Wilson may not have been the one who actually hit Germany, but he's charged with homicide for allegedly setting off the fatal chain of events.Korey Johnson was questioned but never charged in the Germany case.Romeo Price, 19 -- another Homewood man who was questioned but not charged in the Germany case -- is accused of homicide for what police have called a gang-related killing of 15-year-old Ernest Tolliver outside a KFC restaurant on Frankstown Avenue.County police have said that Price and Wilson had some type of relationship, but they did not elaborate. Related Links:
Copyright 2009 by ThePittsburghChannel. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
| ||||||||
   |
| |||||||
