Woman hospitalized after being shot in Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood

PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR AT FOUR STARTS NOW. HEY EVERYBODY. THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US HERE FOR PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR AT 4:00. I’M KELLY SASSO AND I’M SHANNON PERRINE IN FOR ANDREW STOCKEY TODAY. HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING AND WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON, STARTING WITH YOUR TOP FOUR STORIES AT 4:00 BEGINS WITH BREAKING NEWS. THE PENTAGON SAYS OVER 100 U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS HAVE BEEN INJURED IN THIS WAR WITH IRAN, EIGHT OF THEM SEVERELY. DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH SAID TODAY WOULD SEE THE MOST INTENSE STRIKES YET DESTROYED BY FIRE. SMOKE AND FLAMES TEAR THROUGH A HOME IN PLUMB. FIREFIGHTERS FROM TWO COUNTIES WERE NEEDED TO CONTAIN THIS. THE CAUSE OF THIS FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION, AND POLICE FOUND A MAN WITH A LOADED GUN, DUCT TAPE AND A CROWBAR PROWLING AROUND A WOMAN’S HOME IN GREENSBURG. HERE YOU CAN SEE HIM IN THE DOORBELL. CAMERA. POLICE SAY IF THEY ARRIVED EVEN A MINUTE OR TWO LATER, HE MAY HAVE GOTTEN INSIDE. INSTEAD, HE IS NOW IN JAIL. IT IS A CALM BEFORE THE STORMS. PLURAL. TOMORROW IS A SEVERE WEATHER ALERT DAY. THE FIRST ROUND COULD WAKE YOU UP EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. IT WILL ALSO MARK THE END OF OUR SPRING, MAYBE EVEN SUMMER. LIKE TEMPERATURES. AND SO THAT IS YOUR TOP FOUR STORIES AT FOUR. SO TIME NOW FOR PITTSBURGH’S ACTION WEATHER 4. YEAH, NOT SO GREAT NEWS I GUESS. SAD TO SEE THE WEATHER GO. I MEAN, I’M GRATEFUL WE HAD THE I’M SURE EVERYBODY IS GRATEFUL WE HAD THESE NICE TEMPERATURES. BUT LET’S TALK ABOUT THESE STORMS. SO A COUPLE OF ROUNDS TOMORROW. YEAH WE COULD SEE POTENTIALLY UP TO THREE ROUNDS OF RAIN TOMORROW. AND REALLY ROUND TWO IS THE IMPORTANT ONE TO LIMIT. ROUND THREE BEING STRONG TO SEVERE. SO ALL TYPES OF RAIN AND STORMS TOMORROW WILL START EARLY IN THE MORNING. AND AGAIN THEY WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. BEHIND THIS COLD FRONT WE WILL TURN MUCH COLDER ON THURSDAY AND WE’RE WATCHING ANOTHER COLD FRONT SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. THAT WILL BRING RAIN AND EVEN SOME SNOWFLAKES AS WE HEAD INTO MONDAY. LET’S TIME OUT THOUGH TOMORROW. FIRST, IT IS A SEVERE WEATHER ALERT DAY. WE’RE QUIET AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORNING, WE’LL WATCH SHOWERS AND STORMS ARRIVING PERHAPS AS EARLY AS 4 OR 5 IN THE MORNING. THIS IS ROUND NUMBER ONE. THIS SHOULD SWING THROUGH AND BE EXITING AS WE GET THROUGH THE MORNING COMMUTE. SO MAYBE A LITTLE ROUGH, ESPECIALLY EARLY COMMUTERS. LATER COMMUTERS. RAIN SHOULD BE TAPERING OFF. ROUND NUMBER TWO LOOKS TO GET HERE AROUND MIDDAY. THIS IS THE QUESTION MARK ROUND. IF THAT DOESN’T DEVELOP, THAT COULD ALLOW STORMS TO GET STRONGER IN THE EVENING. SO WHAT HAPPENS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY? TOMORROW WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT. ALL MODES OF SEVERE WEATHER ARE POSSIBLE. DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE OUR PRIMARY CONCERNS. TOMORROW, HOWEVER, SOME SMALL HAIL AND EVEN A BRIEF TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT, ESPECIALLY IN THE EVENING. AGAIN, THAT WAS CONTINGENT ON ROUND NUMBER TWO, SO A LOT WILL BE WATCHING THROUGH THE DAY. TOMORROW WILL CLIMB TO ABOUT 71, AND THEN THERE’S THE END OF OUR NICE MAY LIKE FEEL. WE’RE DOWN IN THE 40S ON THURSDAY, BACK TO THE 50S ON FRIDAY, NEAR 50 ON SATURDAY. BUT WE’RE DRY FOR THE SAINT PATRICK’S DAY PARADE. BUT AGAIN, WE’RE WATCHING MULTIPLE ROUNDS. TOMORROW. YOU THUNDER MAY WAKE YOU UP TOMORROW MORNING. WE’RE NOT EXPECTING WIDESPREAD SEVERE. UNLESS ROUND NUMBER THREE IN THE EVENING IS ABLE TO GET TO THE STRONGEST ROUND. BUT AGAIN, WOULD DEPEND WHAT HAPPENS ON MIDDAY. RIGHT. IT’S FASCINATING HOW YOU EXPLAIN THAT YOU’RE WAITING FOR SOME VARIABLES TO BE FILL IN SOME BLANKS HERE. YES. AND THAT’S KIND OF WHAT HAPPENS WITH SEVERE WEATHER. RIGHT. WE HAVE IF IF WE SEE WHAT WE EXPECT RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS RAIN IN THE MORNING, MIDDAY IN THE EVENING, THERE WILL BE NO STRONG, STRONG STORMS TOMORROW, MAYBE SOME STRONG WINDS, BUT NOT WIDESPREAD SEVERE. THAT MIDDLE ROUND THOUGH IS GOING TO BE VERY KEY. TOMORROW WILL BE FILLING IN THOSE BLANKS. YEAH OBVIOUSLY OUR TEAM IS ON IT. YOU JUST HEARD IT RIGHT THERE. ANOTHER GREAT WAY TO STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE INCOMING STORMS IS OUR FREE WTAE APP. YOU CAN TRACK THE RAIN WITH OUR LIVE RADAR. YOU CAN ALSO TURN ON THE ALERTS TO KNOW FIRST IF ANY WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY RIGHT NOW. FIRE DESTROYS A A PLUM BOROUGH HOME. AND YOU DID SEE THIS AS BREAKING NEWS EARLIER TODAY. SKY 4 YOU CAN SEE HERE WAS OVER THAT HOME. WE WANT TO GO AHEAD AND BRING THIS UP FULL FOR YOU. THIS STARTED JUST AFTER 10:00 THIS MORNING ON PIERSON RUN ROAD. WE CAN SEE IN THE VIDEO A LOT OF SMOKE COMING FROM THE HOME, AS WELL AS SOME FLAMES. WE’RE HEARING THAT EVERYONE DID MAKE IT OUT SAFELY. FIREFIGHTERS FROM BOTH ALLEGHENY AND WESTMORELAND COUNTIES RESPONDED TO THIS, CHECKED IN WITH ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICIALS JUST A SHORT TIME AGO. THEY TELL US THE FIRE MARSHAL IS INVESTIGATING A CAUSE. NOW, A STORY YOU’LL SEE ONLY ON FOUR. A MAN CAUGHT ON CAMERA TRYING TO BREAK INTO A GREENSBURG HOME LAST NIGHT. RANDY BREINER, WHO POLICE SAY IS THE MAN YOU SEE RIGHT HERE IN THIS VIDEO, FACES FELONY CHARGES TODAY. HE HAS A LENGTHY CRIMINAL HISTORY OF THEFT, BURGLARY AND ARSON. POLICE SAY HE HAD A BAG OF WEAPONS AND OTHER ITEMS WHEN THEY ARRESTED HIM YESTERDAY. THIS IS TRULY A TERRIFYING STORY HERE. CITY OF GREENSBURG POLICE SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY WITH OUR WESTMORELAND BUREAU REPORTER AT DIORIO ABOUT THIS TODAY. AND HAVE POLICE DETERMINED EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THEY GOT THERE? WELL, KELLY, SHANNON, HERE’S WHAT I KNOW FROM MY CONVERSATION WITH CITY OF GREENSBURG POLICE. THIS IS THEY GET CALLS LIKE THIS A LOT WHEN IT COMES TO SUSPICIOUS FIGURES BEING AROUND HOMES AND WHAT THEY MAY BE DOING THERE. HOWEVER, THOSE INSIDE THE CITY OF GREENSBORO POLICE DEPARTMENT BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS A CALCULATED AND PLANNED ATTEMPT AT A HOME INVASION BY THE ACCUSED MAN THAT YOU GUYS ALREADY MENTIONED, RANDY BREINER. NOW, WHEN I SPOKE TO THE HOMEOWNER ALONG COLLEGE AVENUE, IT’S NOT ONLY A WOMAN AND WE’RE GOING TO LEAVE HER UNIDENTIFIED, BUT SHE DID TELL ME THAT SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHO BREINER IS, SO SHE WAS SURPRISED WHEN SHE SAW WHAT YOU JUST SAW IN THAT RING. CAMERA FOOTAGE AND POLICE OFFICERS WERE CALLED, AND WITHIN MINUTES, THEY ARRIVED TO THE HOME AND NO ONE WAS AROUND. WELL, THEY STARTED SEARCHING AROUND THE AREA WITH K-9 OFFICER ACE AND EVENTUALLY FOUND HER HIDING BEHIND A TREE. AND HERE’S WHAT OFFICERS CALL CONCERNING THE BAG THAT THE MAN IN THE VIDEO THAT YOU SEE WHAT HE’S CARRYING THERE HAD A PISTOL, A FULLY LOADED PISTOL, A CROWBAR, DUCT TAPE, WADDED UP NAPKINS AND KNIVES INSIDE. BASED OFF OF HIS MOVEMENT FROM THE RING DOORBELL CAMERA THAT HE PROCEEDED BEHIND THE HOUSE. AND SO THAT’S THE DIRECTION THAT THEY WENT ALONG WITH THE K-9. AND THIS WAS PROBABLY A MATTER OF A MINUTE OR LESS THAT HE WOULD HAVE ACTUALLY MADE ENTRY INTO THAT RESIDENCE. IS NOT BRYNNER’S FIRST RUN IN WITH THE LAW. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RAP SHEET? WELL, SHANNON, MORE SPECIFICALLY, IN BREANNA’S LIFE, HE HAS 13 SEPARATE COURT DOCKETS AGAINST HIM. AND IN THOSE DOCKETS, A LOT OF THEM INCLUDE CHARGES LIKE THEFT, BURGLARY, SIMILAR ONES TO WHAT WE SAW IN THIS CASE YESTERDAY. AND IF YOU REMEMBER, IN 2022, A HOUSE WAS BURNED TO THE GROUND IN HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP. BREINER WAS THE ACCUSED ARSONIST IN THAT CASE AS HE WAS A HANDYMAN AROUND THAT HOME. SO THIS IS A GOOD DAY. ACCORDING TO THOSE AT THE GREENSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE BREINER IS NOW BEHIND BARS, WE’LL GET MORE INTO HIS CRIMINAL HISTORY AND SOME MORE CONTEXT TO THIS STORY IN THE FULL REPORT AT 5:00, COVERING WESTMORELAND COUNTY TONIGHT IN THE CITY OF GREENSBURG, A DIORIO PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. WOW. REALLY PUTTING THAT TOGETHER FOR US. OKAY. THANKS SO MUCH. WE WANT TO STAY HERE IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOR A MOMENT WHERE CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED AGAINST A LOWER BOROUGH MAN WHO IS ACCUSED OF FIRING SHOTS AT OFFICERS DURING A STANDOFF. 29 YEAR OLD JORDAN LINDER HAS NOW BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND ENDANGERMENT. THAT STANDOFF HAPPENED BACK ON FEBRUARY 14TH AT A HOME ON ROGERS DRIVE. NOW, POLICE INITIALLY WENT THERE TO ARREST LINDER ON ACCUSATIONS THAT HE DAMAGED HIS NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE. NO OFFICERS WERE HURT. LINDER IS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL. TWO PEOPLE ARE RECOVERING FROM THEIR INJURIES AFTER A STABBING OVERNIGHT IN BEAVER COUNTY. JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. POLICE RESPONDED TO AN APARTMENT ON SUPERIOR AVENUE IN ALIQUIPPA FOR A DOMESTIC DISPUTE. ONE OF THE VICTIMS, A WOMAN, TOLD POLICE HER EX-BOYFRIEND, TYRONE MALONE, GOT INTO HER HOME BEFORE ASSAULTING HER AND STABBING HER NEW BOYFRIEND. CHARGES AGAINST MALONE INCLUDE AGGRAVATED AND SIMPLE ASSAULT, ALONG WITH BURGLARY. ALLEGHENY COUNTY COUNCIL IS SET TO DISCUSS AN ORDINANCE AGAINST WORKING WITH FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AS WELL. OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS, COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE HEARD FROM RESIDENTS, MANY OF THEM ASKING THAT THE RESOLUTION BE PASSED. WE DO EXPECT A VOTE AT TONIGHT’S MEETING, AND THAT BEGINS AT 5:00. NOW, JUST A SHORT TIME AGO, THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED A GROUP OF DIVERS WHO VERY BRAVELY TOOK ON ICY WATERS TO TRY AND SAVE A WOMAN WHOSE CAR CRASHED INTO THE MON RIVER. YEAH, IT REALLY IS A SCENE MANY OF US HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN. YEAH, IT WAS JUST AT THE END OF JANUARY WHEN JACINTA STEPHENS WENT OFF THE PARKWAY EAST IN HER CAR AND LANDED IN THE ICE COVERED RIVER. DIVERS GOT HER OUT OF THE CAR, BUT SHE DID DIE AT THE HOSPITAL. TEMPERATURES AT THE TIME WERE ABOUT 14 DEGREES PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS 4 REPORTER. MARCIE CIPRIANI IS LIVE DOWNTOWN, WHERE THAT CEREMONY JUST WRAPPED UP. MARCI. YEAH. 30 PITTSBURGH PARAMEDICS WERE RECOGNIZED HERE INSIDE THE CITY COUNTY BUILDING FROM THE DIVERS WHO WENT INTO THAT ICY WATER, TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SHOWED UP ON SCENE, OFF DUTY TO STEP UP. PITTSBURGH MAYOR COREY O’CONNOR, AS WELL AS PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR SHELDON WILLIAMS AND EMS CHIEF AMEERA GILCHRIST, THANKED THE MEMBERS OF EMS WHO ENTERED THAT ICY WATER AND FACED CHALLENGES BOTH IN THE MINE AND ON LAND AS THEY WORK TO RESCUE DISENTIS STEPHENS, WHOSE CAR PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER THAT DAY. ONE BY ONE, THEY WERE RECOGNIZED. GREG KURSTIN GREG WAS THE FIRST DIVER TO ENTER THE FREEZING WATER. ADAM PALMER ADAM WAS THE SECOND DIVER WHO ENTERED THE WATER. ERIC ROBERTS, THE THIRD DIVER TO ENTER THE WATER. THOSE THREE MEN, AS YOU HEARD, WERE THE FIRST THREE DIVERS TO ENTER THE WATER THAT DAY AND THEY RECEIVED THE MEDAL OF VALOR. NOW, COMING UP AT 5:00. HEAR FROM THAT FIRST DIVER WHO ENTERED THE WATER? HE TELLS ME HE WASN’T EVEN WORKING THE RIVER THAT DAY, BUT HE CALLED FOR HIS DIVE GEAR AND ENTERED THE WATER TO GET TO JACINTA STEPHENS, COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY FROM DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH. MARCIE CIPRIANI PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. MARCI. THANK YOU. WE WANT TO TAKE YOU TO THE LATEST NOW IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THE PENTAGON SAID TODAY ABOUT 140 U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS HAVE BEEN INJURED IN THE WAR IN IRAN, EIGHT OF THEM SEVERELY. THIS COMES AS NEW BLASTS UNFOLD AROUND THE MIDDLE EAST. ABC’S OLIVIA RUBIN HAS THE LATEST. TORI OF DEFENSE TODAY PLEDGING TODAY WILL BE THE MOST INTENSE DAY OF STRIKES IN IRAN. THE MOST FIGHTERS, THE MOST BOMBERS, THE MOST STRIKES. INTELLIGENCE MORE REFINED AND BETTER THAN EVER. JUST YESTERDAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYING THE WAR COULD BE OVER SOON. WE’RE ACHIEVING MAJOR STRIDES TOWARD COMPLETING OUR MILITARY OBJECTIVE, AND SOME PEOPLE COULD SAY THEY’RE PRETTY WELL COMPLETE. DRAMATIC VIDEO CIRCULATING ONLINE SHOWS PEOPLE RACING TO ESCAPE AS MISSILES BLASTED THIS MILITARY BASE OUTSIDE TEHRAN. PRESIDENT SAYS THAT IT’S NEARLY COMPLETE, BUT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SAYS THAT IT’S JUST BEGUN. A NEW QUESTIONS AFTER AN IRANIAN NEWS AGENCY REPORTS 40 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A U.S. STRIKE ON TWO APARTMENT COMPLEXES IN TEHRAN, IRAN, STILL LAUNCHING COUNTERSTRIKES TO THE UAE, SAYING ONE OF ITS CONSULATES IN IRAQ WAS HIT. WHILE U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND TRIES TO TAKE OUT IRAN’S MISSILE LAUNCHERS. OUR STRIKES MEAN WE’VE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN REDUCING THE NUMBER OF MISSILE AND DRONE ATTACKS OUT OF IRAN. AND OVERNIGHT, THE JOINT CHIEFS CHAIR, DEFENSE SECRETARY AND VICE PRESIDENT VANCE ATTENDED THE DIGNIFIED TRANSFER FOR THE SEVENTH AMERICAN SERVICE MEMBER KILLED 26 YEAR OLD SERGEANT BENJAMIN PENNINGTON. HE WANTED TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY AND BE A SOLDIER. AND NOW A BIT OF DAYLIGHT SEEMINGLY EMERGING BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS VICE PRESIDENT, J.D. VANCE, WHO HAS LONG OPPOSED FOREIGN INTERVENTION. NOW, THE PRESIDENT SAYING THAT HIS VICE PRESIDENT WAS LESS ENTHUSED ABOUT THE OPERATION IN IRAN AND THAT THE TWO ARE PHILOSOPHICALLY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT ON THE ISSUE. OLIVIA RUBIN, ABC NEWS, WASHINGTON. NOW, DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN SUMMER LEE WEIGHED IN. SHE BELIEVES THERE IS NO END IN SIGHT TO THIS WAR. AND WE’VE SEEN NO EVIDENCE FROM THE PRESIDENT OR ANY OF HIS TEAM THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY COME TOGETHER WITH A COHESIVE PLAN FOR WHY THEY’RE DOING THIS, WHAT THEY WHAT THEY HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH FROM THIS. AND WHEN WE HAVE THESE TYPES OF KIND OF ILL CONCEIVED PLANS LIKE WE’VE SEEN IN VENEZUELA, LIKE WE ARE NOW SEEING IN IRAN, RIGHT? IT IS A HUMAN COST THAT IS CAN BE INCONCEIVABLE. WELL, YOU CAN BET WE’RE KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON THE PRICE OF GASOLINE AS THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONTINUES. TRIPLE A SAYS PITTSBURGHERS ARE PAYING A LITTLE MORE TODAY. 3.76 FOR A GALLO

Woman hospitalized after being shot in Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood

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Updated: 8:05 PM EDT Mar 10, 2026

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A woman was taken to the hospital after being shot in Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood Tuesday night. VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 Pittsburgh police said just before 6 p.m., first responders were called to Auburn Street for two separate ShotSpotter alerts totaling thirteen rounds. While on the way to the scene, dispatchers told officers that an updated call said a woman had been shot. A woman was later found inside a home with a gunshot wound to her left thigh area. She was taken to the hospital, and last said to be in stable condition. Police said the home sustained bullet damage, and multiple shell casings were recovered from the street. No other injuries or damage were reported. An investigation is underway. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.

PITTSBURGH —

A woman was taken to the hospital after being shot in Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood Tuesday night.

VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4

Pittsburgh police said just before 6 p.m., first responders were called to Auburn Street for two separate ShotSpotter alerts totaling thirteen rounds. While on the way to the scene, dispatchers told officers that an updated call said a woman had been shot.

A woman was later found inside a home with a gunshot wound to her left thigh area. She was taken to the hospital, and last said to be in stable condition.

Police said the home sustained bullet damage, and multiple shell casings were recovered from the street.

No other injuries or damage were reported.

An investigation is underway.

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