Authorities work to ID child, shooters
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office has been working to identify a 19-month-old boy fatally shot during a backyard picnic in Pittsburgh, along with two young women who were wounded.
Police believe the victims may not have been the intended target of the unknown shooters. Police say as many as three gunmen jumped out of a vehicle and opened fire on the group in the city’s crime-ridden East End about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Police collected dozens of bullet casings from a road where the shots were fired.
One woman was reportedly found lying on top of the child, in an apparent effort to shield him. That 20-year-old woman was listed in critical condition after surgery at UPMC Presbyterian hospital.
Another woman, 19, was in serious but stable condition after surgery for her wounds.