Police search for driver after dog fatally struck by vehicle in Allegheny County
The West Homestead Police Department said in a post on Monday that a dog was rushed to a vet hospital after it was struck by a silver Toyota.
NOW ON PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. A MAN HAS DIED AFTER BEING SHOT IN MARKET SQUARE LATE MONDAY NIGHT. WE’RE LEARNING FROM POLICE TONIGHT. DETAILS CONTINUE TO COME OUT OF TESTIMONY IN THE TRIAL OF A WESTMORELAND COUNTY MOM ACCUSED OF TORTURING AND KILLING HER FIVE YEAR OLD SON IN 2023. WHAT HER HUSBAND HAD TO SAY ON THE STAND. AHEAD. A RESERVE TOWNSHIP POLICE OFFICER IS NOW SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY AFTER BEING CHARGED TWICE IN JUST MORE THAN TWO WEEKS. WE WILL TELL YOU WHO IS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND THE CRIMES. POLICE SAY HE COMMITTED. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR AT SEVEN STARTS NOW. GOOD EVENING. THANKS FOR BEING WITH US HERE ON COZI TV. I’M RYAN RECKER. RIGHT NOW, PITTSBURGH POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR SUSPECTS IN TWO SHOOTINGS THAT TOOK PLACE. MOMENTS APART FROM EACH OTHER. LATE LAST NIGHT, JUST BEFORE 11:00, OFFICERS WERE CALLED TO EAST HILLS DRIVE FOR A REPORTED SHOOTING AND 33 YEAR OLD ISAIAH BOOKER WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED. A FEW MINUTES LATER, GUNSHOTS AND MARKET SQUARE KILLED 19 YEAR OLD TERRELL LITTLE. REPORTER KALEA GUNDERSON IS IN MARKET SQUARE WITH REACTION FROM RESIDENTS AND CITY OFFICIALS. WE NOW KNOW THE NAME OF THE 19 YEAR OLD KILLED. HE IS TERRELL LITTLE OF DUQUESNE. AND AT THIS POINT, THE INVESTIGATION. POLICE SAY NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE. THAT’S TWO YOUNG. TWO YOUNG. A 19 YEAR OLD LOSING HIS LIFE TO GUN VIOLENCE AFTER WHAT PITTSBURGH POLICE SAY STARTED AS AN ALTERCATION BETWEEN TERRELL LITTLE AND SOMEONE HE KNEW. MOMENTS LATER, LITTLE WAS SHOT IN THE CHEST. IT’S A CURRENT INVESTIGATION, SO WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WHAT EXACTLY OCCURRED. I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, ONE SHOOTING IS TOO MANY ACROSS PITTSBURGH. PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SAFETY SAID LITTLE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND INTO SURGERY, BUT HE DIDN’T SURVIVE PASSING AWAY SHORTLY AFTER 2:00 THIS MORNING. THAT’S A HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. I THINK THAT FOR THE MOST PART, I DON’T NECESSARILY FEEL UNSAFE DOWNTOWN, BUT I THINK THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS SHOCKING JUST BECAUSE IT ISN’T VERY POPULAR. I MEAN, THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN VERY OFTEN DOWNTOWN, AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ABOUT. AND HERE IN MARKET SQUARE, IT SCARED ME BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I SURE DON’T WANT TO GET SHOT OUT HERE ANY TIMES. A LOT DIFFERENT NIGHT TIME. NO, I DON’T FEEL SAFE IN HERE TONIGHT. PITTSBURGH POLICE HAVEN’T SAID EXACTLY WHAT CAMERAS WERE ABLE TO CAPTURE, BUT THEY DID SAY VIDEO FOOTAGE IS BEING REVIEWED, AND THEY WILL FOLLOW ANY LEADS THAT ARISE. COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY TONIGHT, PITTSBURGH’S MARKET SQUARE KALEA GUNDERSON PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. I WANT TO TURN NOW TO PITTSBURGH’S ACTION WEATHER LIVE. LOOK OVER DOWNTOWN OF OUR ACTION CAM. WHAT A DAY WE HAD OUT THERE AFTER THAT OVERNIGHT FREEZE. UNFORTUNATELY THOUGH, OUR ATTENTION IS GOING TO TURN TO RAIN AND AN IMPACT DAY TOMORROW. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST MIKE HARVEY IS HERE. MIKE, WE JUST WANT TO HANG ON TO TODAY FOR AS LONG AS WE CAN. ONE OF THE ONE OF THE BEST DAYS WE’VE HAD HERE IN 2026. YEAH. VERY NICE IN THE AFTERNOON. COMFORTABLE TEMPERATURES. WE HAD ENOUGH SUNSHINE OUT THERE TODAY. AND RIGHT NOW WE’RE SITTING AT 67 DEGREES AFTER THAT HIGH OF 69 THIS MORNING THOUGH CHILLY SIDE DOWN TO 39 DEGREES. NOW TOMORROW WE’RE GOING TO HAVE RAIN THAT’S GOING TO ARRIVE EARLY FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE. MOST OF IT LIGHT RAIN, A FEW POCKETS OF HEAVY RAIN WITH THAT MOVING THROUGH, MIDDLE PART OF THE DAY WILL BE CALM. AND THEN WE’LL HAVE OUR SECOND ROUND OR SECOND LINE OF SHOWERS MOVING THROUGH. BUT THIS WILL HAVE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE REGION AND GAINING STRENGTH AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. BY THE TIME WE GET TO 5:00, IT WILL BE OUT OF HERE. SO BY THE TIME WE GO FROM 2 TO 5:00, IT’S NOT GOING TO LAST VERY LONG AND WILL PUSH ON OUT OF HERE, BUT IT WILL PACK A PUNCH. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING, POSSIBLY SOME STRONG WIND GUSTS UP TO 60MPH. TEMPERATURE WISE, WE’RE LOOKING FOR HIGHS. TOMORROW WILL MAKE IT BACK INTO THE 60S. AS FAR AS THURSDAY AFTER A COLD FRONT ROLLS THROUGH, WE’RE LOOKING AT A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 57 DEGREES. SO A COOL ONE. AND THEN SUNSHINE RETURNS ON FRIDAY AND A HIGH OF 69. THE HUSBAND OF A WOMAN ACCUSED OF TORTURING AND KILLING HER ADOPTED SON IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY TOOK THE WITNESS STAND AGAINST HIS WIFE, WESTMORELAND BUREAU REPORTER ED DIORIO WAS THE ONLY LOCAL REPORTER IN THE COURTROOM AND HAS DETAILS FROM TODAY’S TESTIMONY. SIX DAYS OF TESTIMONY HAVE GONE BY IN THE TRIAL OF LAUREN MALOBERTI. SHE’S ONE OF TWO PEOPLE ACCUSED OF TORTURING AND KILLING FIVE YEAR OLD LANDEN MALOBERTI OF BELMONT. THE OTHER PERSON ACCUSED IN THAT CASE, JACOB MALOBERTI, TESTIFIED AGAINST HIS WIFE ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THE PERSON I THOUGHT I WAS MARRIED TO, I LOST COMPLETE TRUST IN. I CAN’T WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THAT FOR A YEAR. WHAT I WAS TOLD HAPPENED TO OUR SON. DIDN’T HAPPEN. PROSECUTORS IN THE TRIAL OF LAURA MALOBERTI CLAIM HER AND HER HUSBAND, JACOB, EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY TORTURED THEIR FIVE YEAR OLD ADOPTED SON, LANDON. LANDON WAS UNRESPONSIVE, HOSPITALIZED, AND LATER DIED IN LATE JANUARY OF 2023. ON MONDAY, JACOB TESTIFIED THAT HE DIDN’T HARM LANDON, AND HE THOUGHT THE HOSPITALIZATION WAS A MEDICAL INCIDENT. QUOTE, I DIDN’T START WONDERING UNTIL AFTER WE WERE ARRESTED AND I WAS TOLD WHAT I WAS TOLD, END QUOTE. JACOB TOLD JURORS THAT IS WHEN HE STARTED SUSPECTING THAT HIS WIFE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH WHAT HAPPENED TO LANDON. QUOTE. WHEN WE WENT TO COURT ONE TIME, SHE SAID SHE HAD SOMETHING TO TELL ME, BUT SHE COULDN’T SAY ANYTHING. I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS MEDICAL. MEDICAL EXPERTS TESTIFIED LAST WEEK THAT LANDON SUFFERED OVER 100 BRUISES AND A SEVERE BRAIN INJURY. TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN JACOB AND LAUREN WERE READ IN COURT BY DETECTIVES WHO WORKED THE CASE IN JULY OF 2022. LAUREN SENT JACOB QUOTE, I JUST GOT DONE BEATING YOUR SON’S EXPLETIVE, SO I’M WIDE AWAKE. IN AUGUST OF 22, LAUREN AND JACOB HAD THIS CONVERSATION, QUOTE, LANDED BETTER BEHAVE FROM LAUREN. JACOB RESPONDS. DID HE SAY ANYTHING TO YOU? LAUREN RESPONDS, HE’S GONNA GET IT. JACOB MALOBERTI IS STILL IN PRISON FOR CRIMINAL HOMICIDE AND OTHER CHARGES IN CONNECTION TO LANDON’S DEATH. HE WILL BE TRIED AT A LATER DATE. CLOSING ARGUMENTS FOR MALOBERTI CASE COULD COME AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY. IT’S UNKNOWN AT THIS POINT IF LAUREN MALOBERTI WILL TAKE THE STAND IN SELF DEFENSE. COVERING WESTMORELAND COUNTY IN GREENSBURG. ED DIORIO, PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. ELSEWHERE, LOCAL POLICE OFFICER IS SUSPENDED AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF ASSAULT IN FLORIDA AND IS NOW FACING THEFT CHARGES IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY. REPORTER MARCIE CIPRIANI BRINGS US UP TO SPEED ON█THE INVESTIGATIONS. THE CHIEF HERE IN RESERVE TOWNSHIP TELLS ME THAT OFFICER IS NOW SUSPENDED FROM DUTY WITHOUT PAY WHILE HE FACES CHARGES IN TWO STATES CRIMES. COURT PAPERS SAY HE BEGAN COMMITTING HERE IN DECEMBER. THIS IS RESERVE TOWNSHIP POLICE OFFICER MANUEL PARK’S MUGSHOT FROM HIS ARREST FOR BATTERY IN SUMTER COUNTY, FLORIDA. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS FILED THERE, PARK IS BIT. A WOMAN AT A COMMUNITY POOL AND STRUCK HER IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WHILE THEY WERE AT HIS FAMILY’S HOME. AFTER THOSE CHARGES WERE FILED, RESERVE TOWNSHIP POLICE PLACED THE 36 YEAR OLD OFFICER ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. AND NOW, JUST MORE THAN TWO WEEKS LATER, HE IS CHARGED AGAIN. ACCORDING TO COURT PAPERS, THE RESERVE TOWNSHIP OFFICER SPENT MONTHS COMMITTING CRIMES INSIDE THIS OHIO TOWNSHIP GIANT EAGLE AND THE NEARBY TARGET. INVESTIGATORS SAY PARKS WAS SKIP SCANNING, SCANNING SOME ITEMS AT CHECKOUT AND SKIPPING OTHERS, BUT PLACING THEM ALL INTO HIS BAGS AND LEAVING. POLICE SAY THEY HAVE THE OFFICER ON CAMERA AT BOTH LOCATIONS REPEATEDLY. BEGINNING IN DECEMBER AND CONTINUING THROUGH APRIL. ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT, OFFICER STOLE $283.08 IN MERCHANDISE FROM TARGET AND $167.45 WORTH OF ITEMS FROM GIANT EAGLE, INCLUDING DOVE SOAP, RED BULL AND TWIZZLERS. OVER FOUR MONTHS. IN LIGHT OF THESE NEW CHARGES, RESERVE TOWNSHIP CHIEF BRANDON MORGAN HAS ISSUED ANOTHER STATEMENT SAYING OFFICER PARKS IS SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY FROM THE DEPARTMENT AND HIS STATUS, HE TELLS ME, WILL BE DISCUSSED IN THEIR JUNE COUNCIL MEETING. PARKS IS CHARGED WITH BATTERY IN FLORIDA AND RETAIL THEFT HERE AT HOME. BOTH ARE MISDEMEANORS. HIS CASE HERE IS SCHEDULED TO GO BEFORE A JUDGE NEXT MONTH. COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY FROM RESERVE TOWNSHIP, MARCIE CIPRIANI. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. PITTSBURGH CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO PROHIBIT FEDERAL IMMIGRATION OFFICERS FROM OPERATING ON SOME CITY PROPERTY. THE LEGISLATION LIMITS ICE FROM USING CITY FACILITIES LIKE REC CENTERS OR BUILDINGS, WHERE THE CITY STORES EQUIPMENT. IT ALSO SAYS ICE AGENTS CANNOT USE CITY PROPERTY AS STAGING AREAS, NOR CAN THEY ACCESS NONPUBLIC AREAS UNLESS THEY HAVE A WARRANT. LAST MONTH, COUNCIL APPROVED LEGISLATION PROHIBITING COOPERATION WITH ICE AND ALLEGHENY COUNTY COUNCIL HAS ALSO VOTED FOR SIMILAR LEGISLATION. THE STATE IS GATHERING FEEDBACK FROM SOME RESIDENTS IN INDIANA COUNTY ON A PROPOSED PIPELINE THAT WOULD FEED NATURAL GAS TO THE NEW POWER PLANT BEING BUILT IN HOMER CITY. THE PIPELINE WOULD RUN FROM A FACILITY IN BURRELL TOWNSHIP TO THE PLANT, AND WE HAVE A CREW AT THAT MEETI
Police search for driver after dog fatally struck by vehicle in Allegheny County
The West Homestead Police Department said in a post on Monday that a dog was rushed to a vet hospital after it was struck by a silver Toyota.
Updated: 8:46 PM EDT May 12, 2026
Residents are being asked to look through their home security footage and to provide any information they may have to police after officials say a man fatally struck a dog with his vehicle and ran from the scene in Allegheny County. VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 The West Homestead Police Department said in a post on Monday that a dog was rushed to a vet hospital after it was struck by a silver Toyota in the area of Sarah Street and West 10th Avenue. Officials said Sable Kennel took the dog to a vet hospital emergency room, where the dog later died. Police said the male driver of the Toyota briefly stopped after striking the dog and left the scene. Anyone in the area who has security cameras or any information about the driver is urged to contact the West Homestead Police Department. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.
HOMESTEAD, Pa. —
Residents are being asked to look through their home security footage and to provide any information they may have to police after officials say a man fatally struck a dog with his vehicle and ran from the scene in Allegheny County.
VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4
The West Homestead Police Department said in a post on Monday that a dog was rushed to a vet hospital after it was struck by a silver Toyota in the area of Sarah Street and West 10th Avenue.
West Homestead Police Department
Officials said Sable Kennel took the dog to a vet hospital emergency room, where the dog later died.
Police said the male driver of the Toyota briefly stopped after striking the dog and left the scene.
Anyone in the area who has security cameras or any information about the driver is urged to contact the West Homestead Police Department.
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