{"id":169403,"date":"2026-04-18T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:15:15","slug":"death-of-2-year-old-in-allegheny-county-ruled-homicide-investigation-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169403\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of 2-year-old in Allegheny County ruled homicide, investigation ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Allegheny County Medical Examiner has officially ruled the death of a 2-year-old girl a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the medical examiner, 2-year-old Sarah Darji was found unresponsive at a home along McClellan Drive in Pleasant Hills on Tuesday, April 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to UPMC Children&#8217;s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead days later, on April 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner&#8217;s report stated that the cause of death was compression of the neck and ruled it a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not yet known what led up to the toddler&#8217;s death, and an investigation is underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Allegheny County Medical Examiner has officially ruled the death of a 2-year-old girl a homicide.\u00a0 According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,457,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-169403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-homicide","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169403","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=169403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}