Charges have been filed against a man police say shot a 17-year-old last month in Duquesne.
Police say that the shooting took place on July 12. Investigators used videos on the suspect’s cellphone to identify him as their suspect.
The reason they had his phone was that he’d been shot in a later shooting alongside a pregnant woman who died.
On July 12, a 17-year-old who police have not named was shot along Seventh and Kennedy in Duquesne.
The complaint says he told police he saw some friends, slowed down to wave, was shot at, and injured.
He then ducked and crashed into bushes.
The following day, July 13, Allegheny County police were called to Clairton for a pregnant woman who’d been shot and killed along with a male who’d been shot but survived.
The woman, who was pregnant at the time, was found dead at the scene. She was identified as 18-year-old Ja’el Torres, who had just recently graduated from high school. The male was 21-year-old Calid Pettiford.
Police say they recovered multiple firearms. They also say they collected Pettiford’s phone and received a search warrant to download what was on the device.
The complaint says they found multiple videos.
In those selfie-style videos, the complaint says that Pettiford knew he had hit someone.
They say he referenced the 17-year-old victim from the Duquesne shooting, saying, “Yeah, that was me, that’s my work.”
Police also referenced GPS data from the phone that put Pettiford at the scene of the shooting in Duquesne.
The family of Torres, the woman who was shot dead, said her boyfriend, the father of their child, was then shot dead just two days later at a playground in Homestead.
KDKA-TV has reached out to county police to work toward getting that connection confirmed.
Pettiford now faces several charges, including attempted homicide.
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly labeled a charge against Pettiford as criminal homicide. He is facing a charge of attempted homicide.
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