{"id":92903,"date":"2026-01-21T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92903\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:13:08","slug":"man-arrested-charged-with-killing-his-roommate-at-a-pittsburgh-group-home-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92903\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested, charged with killing his roommate at a Pittsburgh group home \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 A man is in custody and facing homicide charges, accused of killing his roommate Tuesday night in Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 previously told you that Timothy Moran, 62, was found at a group home on S. Aiken Avenue around 8:25 p.m. Tuesday unresponsive and with \u201csignificant trauma to his head and face.\u201d He was pronounced dead on scene. Police later said he was stabbed multiple times in the head and face. <\/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-with-significant-trauma-head-face-found-dead-house-bloomfield-police-say\/DNFAQDGGWNDDTN4W3XWHVQLV7M\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-with-significant-trauma-head-face-found-dead-house-bloomfield-police-say\/DNFAQDGGWNDDTN4W3XWHVQLV7M\/\"> Man with \u2018significant trauma\u2019 to head, face found dead inside Bloomfield home, police say <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, acting police chief Jason Lando confirmed that Moran\u2019s roommate, Eric Henderson, 44, was arrested overnight in Bellevue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Lando said Moran is being charged with homicide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In that press conference, Lando revealed that the 8:25 p.m. call wasn\u2019t the first time police were at the house on Tuesday. Officers were called to the home for what was described as a \u201cverbal dispute between roommates\u201d regarding personal space around 6 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">At that time, there was reportedly no threat of violence or weapon involved, so officers determined there was no further action for them to take and no arrests were made. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Lando said the body camera footage of those officers was reviewed and it was confirmed that the first call was handled appropriately. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officers noted during the press conference that they\u2019ve responded to the home eight times in the last three months, mostly for things not criminal in nature, like welfare checks or noise complaints. <\/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":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man is in custody and facing homicide charges, accused of killing his roommate Tuesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45727,1646,19359,45729,457,20494,73,75,74,45728,2794],"class_list":["post-92903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aiken-avenue","tag-arrest","tag-charged","tag-group-home","tag-homicide","tag-jason-lando","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-s-aiken-avenue","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92903","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=92903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}