{"id":127915,"date":"2026-03-03T01:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127915\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:24:06","slug":"pittsburgh-man-charged-in-deadly-wilkinsburg-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127915\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh man charged in deadly Wilkinsburg shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">WILKINSBURG, Pa. \u2014 A Pittsburgh man has been charged with homicide in connection with a deadly shooting that happened in Wilkinsburg in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Allegheny County Police Department filed charges against Jason Levelle Moran, 41, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators identified Moran as a suspect in the murder of Jack Johnson, 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Johnson was found in the street at the 700 block of South Avenue on Jan. 13 at 8:42 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-deadly-shooting-wilkinsburg\/UHNEX4XPLZBOXM4AVBX5Y7LUHE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-deadly-shooting-wilkinsburg\/UHNEX4XPLZBOXM4AVBX5Y7LUHE\/\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Man found shot dead in middle of Wilkinsburg street<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Allegheny County Police said Johnson had been shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A criminal complaint filed against Moran said that a man with a notable face and hand tattoo was seen on surveillance cameras at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officers used those cameras to track the man with tattoos to an apartment building on Wood Street. That man leaves the apartment in an Uber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police met with several witnesses who were seen in the various videos and learned Moran\u2019s street aliases: \u201cFlame\u201d and \u201cFace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officers said multiple witnesses identified Moran as the suspect out of a photo lineup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Moran was taken into custody on Monday and is being held at the Allegheny County Jail.<\/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":"WILKINSBURG, Pa. \u2014 A Pittsburgh man has been charged with homicide in connection with a deadly shooting that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1646,4738,4029,29830,29831,29832,577,4741,21883,3193,31,784,29833,2590,7356,4747,794,7683,29834,29835,22079,4394,740,742,4751,21101,23200,29836,16888,15656,73,75,74,206,796,13365,787,29837,3860,29838,4048,5378,15161,29839,13471,29840,450,4756,209,29841],"class_list":{"0":"post-127915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-background","10":"tag-black","11":"tag-bondage","12":"tag-bracelet","13":"tag-chain","14":"tag-closed","15":"tag-concept","16":"tag-conceptual","17":"tag-control","18":"tag-crime","19":"tag-criminal","20":"tag-cuffs","21":"tag-custody","22":"tag-enforcement","23":"tag-guilt","24":"tag-guilty","25":"tag-hand","26":"tag-handcuff","27":"tag-handcuffs","28":"tag-iron","29":"tag-jail","30":"tag-justice","31":"tag-law","32":"tag-legal","33":"tag-lock","34":"tag-metal","35":"tag-metallic","36":"tag-nobody","37":"tag-object","38":"tag-pittsburgh","39":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","40":"tag-pittsburgh-news","41":"tag-police","42":"tag-prison","43":"tag-prisoner","44":"tag-punishment","45":"tag-secure","46":"tag-security","47":"tag-shackles","48":"tag-shadow","49":"tag-sign","50":"tag-silver","51":"tag-single","52":"tag-steel","53":"tag-stk25pf","54":"tag-suspect","55":"tag-symbol","56":"tag-theft","57":"tag-thief"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127915","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=127915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}