Woman, dog found dead following Brighton Heights fire
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
After putting out an early-morning fire in Pittsburgh’s Brighton Heights neighborhood on Saturday, firefighters found both a woman and dog who had died inside.
Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire crews responded a home on the 4000 block of Cambronne Street just after midnight on Feb. 13, Pittsburgh police said.
After encountering “severe hoarding conditions in the home, they accessed the second floor to find a female deceased with a dog, which was also deceased,” according to Pittsburgh Police spokeswoman Cara Cruz.
The Fire Investigations Unit and Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office are continuing the investigation. The woman’s identity has not been released.
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CORAOPOLIS, PA A Burgettstown man is charged with beating his girlfriend s 3-year-old son to death. Tyler Mason has been charged with homicide in connection with the death of Aiden Lombardi.
After police were called to a Pennsylvania Avenue home on Tuesday for an unresponsive child, Mason originally was charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of children for allegedly beating the toddler while watching him. The boy later died at Children s Hospital; the Allegheny County Medical Examiner s Office ruled the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head.
Mason is being held in the Allegheny County Jail.
Man hit, killed by train on Pittsburgh’s South Side
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
A man was struck and killed by a train on Pittsburgh’s South Side Saturday morning.
According to city police, the incident on South Fourth Street at Color Park was reported just before 10:45 a.m.
Officers found the man dead at the scene. No other information on the victim was immediately released.
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office is expected to release the man’s identity once family notifications have been made.
CSX shut down one track, according to police.
Detectives were investigating.
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The death of a Bookline woman found dead inside a home last Feburary has been ruled an accident, according to an Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office report released Thursday.
Officials said Melanie Hesser, 57, died of thermal and inhalation injuries sustained as a result of a fire along the 200 block of Pioneer Avenue Feb. 11, 2020.
First responders encountered heavy smoke and flames at the back of the two-story house when they arrived around 10:30 p.m. that night, according to the city’s Public Safety Department.
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Police and emergency crews in Swissvale, where a man was hit and killed by a train was found on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020.
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The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Tuesday that the death of a man hit by a train in Swissvale last year was accidental.
Walter Gunter, 45, of Rankin died as a result of injuries sustained from the accident around 5 p.m. Jan. 6, 2020 near the corner of South Braddock and Woodstock avenues, according to the examiner’s report.