{"id":229710,"date":"2026-06-27T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229710\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:05:09","slug":"heart-wrenching-mother-of-woman-killed-in-shooting-in-braddock-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229710\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heart-wrenching\u2019: Mother of woman killed in shooting in Braddock speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">BRADDOCK, Pa. \u2014 A local mother is sharing her pain and calling for justice after losing her daughter to a deadly shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI want justice for my daughter, and I\u2019m coming after it,\u201d Mia Meredith told Channel 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Meredith won\u2019t stop pushing for answers until investigators arrest the person who shot and killed her daughter, Quinn Venay. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-dead-two-others-critically-injured-braddock-shooting\/PUEKWUNTZNB33JF3TJ775A23E4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-dead-two-others-critically-injured-braddock-shooting\/PUEKWUNTZNB33JF3TJ775A23E4\/\" target=\"_blank\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Woman dead, two others critically injured in Braddock shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cEmotionally, it would make me feel like I got some type of justice for my daughter. Then, I can move on by living out her legacy and finding a purpose for this,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Quinn was standing outside of Club Elegance in Braddock when someone started firing. Quinn was hit by the gunfire and died, leaving behind two young daughters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/family-friends-gather-remember-young-mother-killed-shooting-braddock\/XZ5CUEWVYRAIVJ4ULUVRT7C3XQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/family-friends-gather-remember-young-mother-killed-shooting-braddock\/XZ5CUEWVYRAIVJ4ULUVRT7C3XQ\/\" target=\"_blank\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Family, friends gather to remember young mother killed in shooting in Braddock<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s heart-wrenching to hear the 2-year-old holler for her mom. All you can say is, \u2018Mom is in heaven,\u2019\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Two other women were also badly hurt by the gunfire. One of them is paralyzed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m so happy their lives were spared. I would hate for it to be three mothers and families dealing with this,\u201d Meredith said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police do not believe the three women were the intended targets, and as of now, no one has been charged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The bar voluntarily shut down after the deadly shooting, but according to social media posts, it may be opening back up as soon as tomorrow night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/local-bar-owner-calls-peace-after-deadly-shooting-neaer-his-business\/EMQDY2IFARATRL3EQZNLOWUTKI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/local-bar-owner-calls-peace-after-deadly-shooting-neaer-his-business\/EMQDY2IFARATRL3EQZNLOWUTKI\/\" target=\"_blank\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Local bar owner calls for peace after deadly shooting near his business<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Meredith is against the bar reopening, especially since there hasn\u2019t been an arrest in her daughter\u2019s murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI need people to speak out and speak up about what they know, what happened that night, or if something was told to them about what happened to them that night so the shooter can be held accountable and do his time in jail,\u201d she said. <\/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":"BRADDOCK, Pa. \u2014 A local mother is sharing her pain and calling for justice after losing her daughter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6638,24360,10924,869,99461,4931,32118,3824,862,4932,861,27906,99459,139,859,73,75,74,21610,99458,99460,420,860],"class_list":["post-229710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny_county","tag-allegheny_county_police","tag-braddock","tag-channel_11","tag-club_elegance","tag-gabriela","tag-gabriela_deluca","tag-gordon","tag-gordon_lesh","tag-lisa","tag-lisa_sylvester","tag-meredith","tag-mia_meredith","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-quinn","tag-quinn_venet","tag-quinn_vernay","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229710","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=229710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}