{"id":261475,"date":"2026-08-08T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261475\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:30:07","slug":"her-spirit-is-here-mourners-gather-to-honor-strip-district-shooting-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261475\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Her spirit is here!\u2019 Mourners gather to honor Strip District shooting victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Rankin Friday night to honor La\u2019Eva Morrison, the 34-year-old woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-dead-after-strip-district-shooting\/YKBZFQCW5NHQFO3GJSBAOWDFIM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-dead-after-strip-district-shooting\/YKBZFQCW5NHQFO3GJSBAOWDFIM\/\">shot in the face and killed in Pittsburgh\u2019s popular Strip District Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Morrison, a mother of two, was killed after a fight got out of hand, family members previously told Channel 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police initially detained three people for questioning but released all of them. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Friday crowd was so large it spilled onto the other side of the street. Hundreds of purple and silver balloons formed a waving helium wall, making it difficult to see across the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">At the center, Morrison\u2019s uncle, James Milton, preached to the crowd about peace and togetherness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cHer spirit is here!\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Next to him, Ingrid Eubanks tried to spread some heavenly advice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a lot of work to do,\u201d Eubanks said, \u201cThroughout the world, there\u2019s people gathering right now for the same reason we\u2019re gathered here today. I hope that there were souls delivered today, so I hope a lot of people\u2019s eyes were opened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Amid the calls to stop the violence was the backdrop of knowing Morrison was the third of her siblings to be killed by gun violence. She previously lost two brothers in separate incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">As the balloons wafted into the air, the crowd hugged and cried. Some promised to do whatever it took to make sure another release wasn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cEva had to touch somebody to make them come here,\u201d Milton mused. \u201cShe spread her love on everybody that came out.\u201d<\/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":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Rankin Friday night to honor La\u2019Eva Morrison, the 34-year-old woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,757],"class_list":["post-261475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-wpxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261475","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=261475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}