{"id":262383,"date":"2026-08-10T03:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262383\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T03:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:34:31","slug":"cellphone-videos-help-identify-suspect-in-july-duquesne-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262383\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellphone videos help identify suspect in July Duquesne shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charges have been filed against a man police say shot a 17-year-old last month in Duquesne.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that the shooting took place on July 12. Investigators used videos on the suspect&#8217;s cellphone to identify him as their suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The reason they had his phone was that he&#8217;d been shot in a later shooting alongside a pregnant woman who died.<\/p>\n<p>On July 12, a 17-year-old who police have not named was shot along Seventh and Kennedy in Duquesne.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint says he told police he saw some friends, slowed down to wave, was shot at, and injured.<\/p>\n<p>He then ducked and crashed into bushes.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, July 13, Allegheny County police were called to Clairton for a pregnant woman who&#8217;d been shot and killed along with a male who&#8217;d been shot but survived.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who was pregnant at the time, was found dead at the scene. She was identified as 18-year-old\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/jael-torres-clairton-teen-killed-shooting-lantern-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ja&#8217;el Torres<\/a>, who had just recently graduated from high school. The male was 21-year-old Calid Pettiford.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they recovered multiple firearms. They also say they collected Pettiford&#8217;s phone and received a search warrant to download what was on the device.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint says they found multiple videos.<\/p>\n<p>In those selfie-style videos, the complaint says that Pettiford knew he had hit someone.<\/p>\n<p>They say he referenced the 17-year-old victim from the Duquesne shooting, saying, &#8220;Yeah, that was me, that&#8217;s my work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police also referenced GPS data from the phone that put Pettiford at the scene of the shooting in Duquesne.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family of Torres, the woman who was shot dead, said her boyfriend, the father of their child, was then shot dead just two days later at a playground in Homestead.<\/p>\n<p>KDKA-TV has reached out to county police to work toward getting that connection confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Pettiford now faces several charges, including attempted homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly labeled a charge against Pettiford as criminal homicide. He is facing a charge of attempted homicide.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charges have been filed against a man police say shot a 17-year-old last month in Duquesne. Police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,73,75,74,220],"class_list":["post-262383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262383","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=262383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}