{"id":271416,"date":"2026-08-24T19:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271416\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:54:18","slug":"man-accused-of-assault-had-master-key-to-victims-pittsburgh-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271416\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of assault had master key to victim’s Pittsburgh building"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man accused of assaulting Pitt student had master key to victim’s apartment building, police say<\/p>\n

\"Yazmin<\/a>\"RaquelPITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n

A man accused of following a Pitt student into an off-campus apartment, assaulting and strangling them, had master keys to the building, police say. <\/p>\n

“I\u2019m definitely scared, I mean this is crazy. I can\u2019t even — I\u2019m still going through my mind that someone was able to get the master key,” said John Freeman who lives in the area.<\/p>\n

Chaz Ramon Corlew Jr is facing multiple charges including burglary, stalking, simple assault, strangulation, indecent assault and resisting arrest. <\/p>\n

According to a criminal complaint, Corlew followed the victim into his apartment at 3506 Forbes Avenue.<\/p>\n

“I mean we saw the cops here over the weekend, when we heard what happened it made us like nervous I guess,” said Leah Larsen, who lives in the building.<\/p>\n

The apartment complex, HERE Pittsburgh, bills itself as modern student apartments near the University of Pittsburgh’s campus. It is not campus housing. <\/p>\n

After entering the apartment, Corlew allegedly propositioned the victim and grabbed him inappropriately before trying to lead him into a bedroom.<\/p>\n

The complaint states the victim backed into the hallway, where Corlew followed and placed the victim into a chokehold. <\/p>\n

“It doesn\u2019t make me excited to live here,” said Malia Savas, who has lived in the building for three years. <\/p>\n

The victim told authorities he could not breathe while being choked but managed to free himself and scream for help.<\/p>\n

Corlew ran from the scene while the victim went to the lobby to call police. The victim said he left the lobby, where he ran into Corlew for a second time. Corlew allegedly followed the victim as he ran away, eventually losing Corlew in a crowd of people. <\/p>\n

Police say when they found the suspect, they were able to put one handcuff on him before he began to resist. He was eventually forced into handcuffs. <\/p>\n

Authorities say they found multiple keys, including a master key to 3506 Forbes Avenue. <\/p>\n

The keys found on Corlew allegedly went to the victim’s apartment building and the master key was able to open any door in the building. <\/p>\n

The victim told authorities he did not know Corlew. <\/p>\n

Corlew has since been taken into custody. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man accused of assaulting Pitt student had master key to victim’s apartment building, police say PITTSBURGH \u2014 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,114259,6152,11228,3646,76655,114257,114262,114263,8467,9857,114256,22462,71547,1399,114258,1406,17119,73,58709,75,74,206,102688,6371,26430,114260,25093,114261,100014,2553,890],"class_list":["post-271416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-apartment-assault","tag-apartment-building","tag-assault","tag-authority","tag-burglary-charges","tag-chaz-ramon-corlew-jr","tag-chokehold","tag-corlew","tag-criminal-complaint","tag-forbes-avenue","tag-here-pittsburgh","tag-indecent-assault","tag-lobby","tag-man","tag-master-key","tag-multiple-charge","tag-pitt-student","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-building","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police","tag-police-arrest","tag-resisting-arrest","tag-simple-assault","tag-stalking-charges","tag-strangulation","tag-student-apartments","tag-suspect-custody","tag-university-of-pittsburgh","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271416","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=271416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}