{"id":109384,"date":"2026-02-09T20:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:44:38","slug":"man-matching-description-for-suspect-in-mckees-rocks-shooting-found-dead-police-say-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109384\/","title":{"rendered":"Man matching description for suspect in McKees Rocks shooting found dead, police say \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators are providing new information about a shooting in McKees Rocks that has a woman hospitalized in critical, but stable condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 on Sunday told you about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-shot-mckees-rocks-police-investigation-underway\/KK7AR3OPEJGWPIH2ONUYVJ57TQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-shot-mckees-rocks-police-investigation-underway\/KK7AR3OPEJGWPIH2ONUYVJ57TQ\/\">woman found shot on Jane Street<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">RELATED COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-shot-mckees-rocks-police-investigation-underway\/KK7AR3OPEJGWPIH2ONUYVJ57TQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-shot-mckees-rocks-police-investigation-underway\/KK7AR3OPEJGWPIH2ONUYVJ57TQ\/\">Woman shot in McKees Rocks; police investigation underway <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Now, the Allegheny County Police Department says detectives have determined the shooting took place on Saturday night, but wasn\u2019t reported until the next morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Detectives also identified Edward Sparrow, 22, as a suspect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">While investigating this shooting, detectives determined Sparrow was involved in a crash on the 100 block of Langer Way in Kennedy Township around 8:17 p.m. Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">When officers responded to that crash, the vehicle was unoccupied. But a witness later told investigators that Sparrow jumped the guard rail on Langer Way after the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators searching the steep hillside near the guardrail on Monday morning located a man matching Sparrow\u2019s description, deceased. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Detectives are currently working with area fire departments to recover the body. Formal identification of the deceased man will be made by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators are providing new information about a shooting in McKees Rocks that has a woman hospitalized in critical,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37370,1335,347,22392,52446,34157,44425,52447,3313,73,75,74,220,450],"class_list":{"0":"post-109384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-allegheny-county-police-department","9":"tag-body","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-deceased","12":"tag-edward-sparrow","13":"tag-jane-street","14":"tag-kennedy-township","15":"tag-langer-way","16":"tag-mckees-rocks","17":"tag-pittsburgh","18":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","19":"tag-pittsburgh-news","20":"tag-shooting","21":"tag-suspect"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109384","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=109384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}