A man died and a woman was injured in a daylight shooting in Lincoln-Lemington on Monday.
Pittsburgh police were called to the 1300 block of Manning Street after someone called 911 at 1:28 p.m. to report shots fired in the area, officials said.
When police arrived, paramedics had already whisked away a 23-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the arm. She was in stable condition Monday night.
Inside a black sedan stopped near the intersection with Montezuma Street, police found 26-year-old Lamounte Hall, who lived about six blocks away, dead of at least one gunshot wound. He was a man familiar to police, someone they had arrested before, including in a homicide case in which he was acquitted.
Detectives, working in freezing rain, measured the distance from the car to a nearby grassy lot. “They are beginning their canvas of the scene,” Pittsburgh public safety spokeswoman Sonya Toler said.
At least one witness told police a man was spotted running out of the area around the time the shots were fired, but it was not immediately clear how, if at all, the man was connected to the shooting.
“We do not know if he is our shooter or not, but we are following up all kinds of leads at this point trying to piece together exactly what took place,” Ms. Toler said.
“It very well could be someone who was just fleeing from the gunshots,” she said.
Court records show Hall was on probation because he pleaded guilty last year to a gun violation and resisting arrest.
Plainclothes detectives were patrolling on Apple Street in May 2013 — less than a month after an officer was shot in the area — when they spotted a group of men on the steps of a home, including Hall, who had a revolver sticking out from his waistband. Hall ran from police, who chased him on several streets and down a hill, until an officer used a Taser on him twice.
Hall told police he “has prior felonies and did time in the stated [sic] penitentiary for a prior gun conviction,” detectives wrote in an affidavit. “He also stated he was carrying the firearm for protection.”
It had been reported stolen to Duquesne police in 2009, police said.
A few years prior, in 2007, Pittsburgh police charged Hall and another man, Joseph Hall, to whom he has no relation, in the 2006 shooting of 17-year-old James Stubbs, who police said was killed while walking home from school.
The resulting court hearings took several dramatic turns. The first two trials concluded as mistrials — one because a witness had a stroke on the stand and later died, another because a different witness was not available.
The key prosecution witness was held in contempt of court after police said he changed his stories about what happened under oath, sometimes identifying the Halls as gunmen and at other times saying they were innocent and police had pressured him to pinpoint the two as suspects, according to newspaper reports at the time. Lamounte Hall was acquitted. Joseph Hall, then 20, of East Liberty, was convicted of third-degree murder and sentenced in 2009 to 17 1/2 to 35 years in prison.
First Published: December 1, 2014, 7:29 p.m.
Updated: December 2, 2014, 4:17 a.m.