Two men were detained following a shooting that left one dead and two wounded in downtown Pittsburgh on Thursday night.
The Post-Gazette reported an officer at Mellon Square Park heard shots around 10:3o p.m. and ran “to Smithfield Street and Strawberry Way.” Once there, he found three people–two men and one woman–with gunshot wounds.
The woman had been shot “in the lower extremities.” One of the men had been shot in the foot and the other man had been shot in the chest.
The officer focused his attention on the man who had been shot in the chest, performing CPR on him until an ambulance arrived.
The Pittsburgh Tribune noted the man with the chest injury, 23-year-old Lonnie Latham III, died later at a hospital.
Both the other two victims were in stable condition.
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