Six people were shot outside a Pittsburgh church on Friday afternoon during a funeral for a man who was fatally shot nearly two weeks ago, police said.
A video of the service captured mourners inside the Destiny of Faith Church on Brighton Street scrambling for safety as the gunshots erupted around noon. They were attending a funeral Mass for John James Hornezes Jr., one of the three people killed in a shooting on Pittsburgh’s North Side on Oct. 15, police said.
Several people were shot outside a funeral in Pittsburgh, Penn., on Oct. 28, 2022.
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Pittsburgh Police Commander Richard Ford told reporters that it wasn’t immediately known if the earlier shooting was linked to the funeral shooting.
Ford said six victims were hospitalized. One victim was in critical condition but later upgraded to stable condition, police said. The other five victims were also listed in stable condition, police said.
No suspects were identified and no arrests were announced as of 5:45 p.m. Friday.
Several people were shot outside a funeral in Pittsburgh, Penn., on Oct. 28, 2022.
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Cops remained at the church throughout the afternoon examining the scene and talking to eyewitnesses.
“I just pray to God, whoever it is, whatever it is, they’re going to repent,” Page Davis, the godmother of Hornezes Jr., who was inside the church during the incident, told ABC affiliate WTAE.
