Man shot to death in McKeesport
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July 14, 2019

Man shot to death in McKeesport

By Mon Valley Independent

By JEFF STITT

jstitt@yourmvi.com

Detectives from the Allegheny County Homicide Unit are investigating after a Pittsburgh man was shot to death on a McKeesport street Saturday evening.

McKeesport police and EMTs from McKeesport Ambulance Rescue Service were dispatched to the intersection of Beacon Street and Hazel Way at 7:53 p.m. Saturday after Allegheny County 911 received a call reporting that a man had been shot.

First responders found the man, later identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office as 21-year-old Delquay Lamont James of Pittsburgh’s North Side, beside a vacant house at 2001 Beacon St.  

James suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Allegheny County Police Lt. Kenneth Ruckel.

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