{"id":268117,"date":"2026-08-19T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268117\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:28:12","slug":"pittsburgh-police-investigating-third-deadly-shooting-in-24-hours-man-found-killed-in-homewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268117\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police investigating third deadly shooting in 24 hours, man found killed in Homewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is dead after another shooting on Wednesday morning, this time in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Homewood neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Pittsburgh Public Safety, just after 5 a.m., police were sent to the 7000 block of Idlewild Street after a one-round ShotSpotter notification.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/homewoodshooting.png#.png\" alt=\"homewoodshooting.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police on the scene of a deadly shooting in Homewood<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Photojournalist Dan Votjko<\/p>\n<p>Once they arrived on the scene, they found a man who had been shot in the chest and was unresponsive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers attempted to render medical aid until medics arrived on the scene, but the man was ultimately pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Public safety said in a social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PghPublicSafety\/status\/2090022258085380562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">post<\/a>\u00a0that no suspects have been identified as of Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/double-shooting-frankstown-avenue-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">second shooting<\/a>\u00a0in a 24-hour timespan in Homewood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, one person was killed, and another was left in critical condition after a shooting inside the Quick Pick on Frankstown Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, also on Wednesday morning, a woman was killed in a shooting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/woman-killed-pittsburgh-hill-district-shooting-overnight\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bedford Dwellings<\/a>, marking three deadly shootings over the past day in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is dead after another shooting on Wednesday morning, this time in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Homewood neighborhood.\u00a0 According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2163,73,75,74,745,220],"class_list":["post-268117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-homewood","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268117","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=268117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}