{"id":323571,"date":"2026-11-08T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323571\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T08:14:11","slug":"man-found-guilty-of-shooting-killing-man-at-apartment-in-wilkinsburg-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323571\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found guilty of shooting, killing man at apartment in Wilkinsburg in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A man was found guilty of shooting and killing another man at an apartment in Wilkinsburg in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Friday, Montrez Blanks, 37, of Pittsburgh, was found guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of SirDorian Turner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Prosecutors say Blanks entered Turner\u2019s apartment on the 700 block of Wood Street at 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 6, 2021, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/top-stories\/man-shot-head-wilkinsburg\/735LV4LPKNHOHF4QE2YPNCRYQY\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/top-stories\/man-shot-head-wilkinsburg\/735LV4LPKNHOHF4QE2YPNCRYQY\/\"> shot the 54-year-old in the head.<\/a> Turner died at the hospital days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Blanks was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-wanted-dec-6-wilkinsburg-shooting-grabbed-auto-store\/57VBHJ3IU5AH5OIUVBYNK6DUBI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-wanted-dec-6-wilkinsburg-shooting-grabbed-auto-store\/57VBHJ3IU5AH5OIUVBYNK6DUBI\/\">arrested at an auto parts store<\/a> on Dec. 15, after police used surveillance footage and witness testimony to identify him as a suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Blanks is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 6. <\/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":"A man was found guilty of shooting and killing another man at an apartment in Wilkinsburg in 2021.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,757],"class_list":["post-323571","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\/323571","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=323571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}