{"id":48776,"date":"2025-12-01T05:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48776\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:54:08","slug":"man-sentenced-to-prison-for-assaulting-73-year-old-man-in-downtown-pittsburgh-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48776\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to prison for assaulting 73-year-old man in Downtown Pittsburgh \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man was handed his sentence this month for assaulting a 73-year-old man in Downtown Pittsburgh last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Online court records show Jameel Huff, 26, of Pittsburgh, agreed to a negotiated guilty plea on Aug. 21 for a charge of aggravated assault after a non-jury trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Nov. 19, Huff was sentenced to a minimum of four years and a maximum of 12 years in prison. He will be credited one year and 146 days for time served.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-73-attacked-downtown-pittsburgh-suspect-custody\/CUWCTYU465HUXI6MQH7LTD3Z4E\/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem_manual&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawOZrlRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEexutxPKoYKeYDCbuE5ZhwcxiGn5RwDoOjWdBsGZOP6NcVhl9mmNtkpMmbiz4_aem_dMKIR114vUW3BxJXbwh7jg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-73-attacked-downtown-pittsburgh-suspect-custody\/CUWCTYU465HUXI6MQH7LTD3Z4E\/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem_manual&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawOZrlRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEexutxPKoYKeYDCbuE5ZhwcxiGn5RwDoOjWdBsGZOP6NcVhl9mmNtkpMmbiz4_aem_dMKIR114vUW3BxJXbwh7jg\">Man, 73, attacked in downtown Pittsburgh; suspect in custody<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police said Huff attacked the 73-year-old man near the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Smithfield Street on June 26, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The victim was walking down the street when Huff approached him, police said. The victim tried to run away, but Huff reportedly hit him in the head, after which he fell and injured his face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Court records obtained by Channel 11 show Huff told police he attacked the victim because he \u201cheard it in his mind\u201d that he was a pedophile.<\/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\">\u00a92025 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 A man was handed his sentence this month for assaulting a 73-year-old man in Downtown Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28263,894,11228,4860,749,28264,794,327,1399,28260,28262,73,75,74,16041,28261,796,788,17065,890,1419],"class_list":["post-48776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-73-year-old-man","tag-allegheny-county","tag-assault","tag-attack","tag-downtown","tag-fourth-avenue","tag-guilty","tag-guilty-plea","tag-man","tag-negotiated","tag-pedophile","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-plea","tag-pleaded-guilty","tag-prison","tag-sentence","tag-smithfield-street","tag-victim","tag-western-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48776","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=48776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}