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Erie Police Chief Dan Spizarny said Friday that investigators suspect that at least some incidents in a recent spate of gun violence in the city might stem from the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy in early December.
Those incidents could include reports from two teenage boys who said they were shot at by unknown suspects as they walked in neighborhoods on the city's east side on Thursday night.
Neither teen was injured in the two shootings, which were reported about an hour apart.
Erie police had no suspects in either crime Friday. Authorities said they are investigating whether the teens were targeted in the incidents.
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An Erie police investigation into the shooting of a 13-year-old boy in what the city’s police chief said appears to have been a targeted attack on Dec. 5 has turned into a homicide probe.
Chief Dan Spizarny said Thursday morning that investigators have been told that the boy, identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner as Kas-ir Gambill, had died of his injuries. The boy had been at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh after being shot multiple times as he and a 17-year-old relative walked away from another relative’s house on the city’s east side on Dec. 5 at about 9:30 p.m.