{"id":100886,"date":"2026-01-30T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:28:08","slug":"pittsburgh-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-murder-of-teen-outside-strip-district-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100886\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh man sentenced to life in prison for murder of teen outside Strip District bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cff6afbbe57e46106758965676bcea86.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a teen outside a Strip District bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/top-stories\/18-year-old-north-hills-high-school-grad-dies-after-shooting-outside-strip-district-bar\/FIULRS3XY5CAPM34FZ6YZ345PM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:18-year-old North Hills High School grad dies after shooting outside Strip District bar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">18-year-old North Hills High School grad dies after shooting outside Strip District bar<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Howard Hawkins, 50, of Brighton Heights, was handed his sentence on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hawkins was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-found-guilty-shooting-killing-teen-outside-strip-district-bar\/KIBQSKILJVCOXEV6DZPMRLXACA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:convicted of first-degree murder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">convicted of first-degree murder<\/a> in November in the shooting death of 18-year-old Ahmir Tuli.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prosecutors say Hawkins was escorted out of Preeti\u2019s Pitt after getting in a fight. He allegedly went to his car, got a handgun and began arguing with Tuli, whom he shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/second-trial-begins-man-accused-shooting-killing-pittsburgh-teen-strip-district\/4OBOSUZJW5EFNCT4GDH75TNUEM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Second trial begins for man accused of shooting, killing Pittsburgh teen in Strip District;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Second trial begins for man accused of shooting, killing Pittsburgh teen in Strip District<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This was the second time Hawkins stood trial for Ahmir\u2019s murder. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/top-stories\/case-against-man-accused-killing-teen-outside-strip-district-restaurant-moving-forward\/DI64L2KUSFAHRIXXCV45POEYMU\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:first trial;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">first trial<\/a> ended in a mistrial after officers brought up his prior criminal record, which wasn\u2019t allowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a teen outside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14606,12376,15604,73,75,74,2731],"class_list":["post-100886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-ahmir-tuli","tag-hawkins","tag-howard-hawkins","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-strip-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}