{"id":94340,"date":"2026-01-23T05:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94340\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:32:07","slug":"family-friends-of-woman-found-dead-in-north-side-home-call-for-answers-at-candle-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94340\/","title":{"rendered":"Family, friends of woman found dead in North Side home call for answers at candle vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Family and friends gathered on the North Side to remember a woman who was found dead in a home in Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">People who loved Michelle Sturdivant gathered for a candlelight vigil at her former home. They shared hugs and shed tears and memories of her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">She was found dead at a home along Watson Boulevard last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-found-dead-pittsburghs-north-side-incident-is-suspicious-nature-police-say\/KBJZHVT3K5GZZAYXDH4XOFIUDQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-found-dead-pittsburghs-north-side-incident-is-suspicious-nature-police-say\/KBJZHVT3K5GZZAYXDH4XOFIUDQ\/\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Woman found dead on Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side; police investigating it as \u2018suspicious in nature\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Her family believes she died from an act of domestic violence and continues demanding answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re here to remember her, but to encourage everyone and encourage ourselves that we will not stop. not only with Michelle, but in all instances of domestic violence,\u201d family friend Steve Singleton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police are still investigating, calling her death \u201csuspicious in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">No arrests have been made at this time.<\/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>Michele<\/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 Family and friends gathered on the North Side to remember a woman who was found dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32923,46321,139,859,73,75,74,420,46322,860],"class_list":["post-94340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-michelle","tag-michelle_sturdivant","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-video","tag-watson_boulevard","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94340","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=94340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}