Duquesne
A West Mifflin man was fatally shot in his car early yesterday morning in Duquesne.
The man has been identified as David Daniels, 23. He was shot inside his car, which was in the 800 block of Oak Street, at around 4:15 a.m., according to the Allegheny County police.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
It was the second such car shooting in Duquesne in the last few days.
Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating the shooting death of Durrell Woodruff, 19, that occurred late Thursday.
[ Full story available at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08300/923091-55.stm ]
By Mike Seate
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Last fall, when the state Board of Control was set to close Duquesne High School, it’s fair to say the announcement wasn’t universally well-received.
At the time, I received several phone calls and letters from parents of students at two schools slated to take the Duquesne students — East Allegheny Senior High and West Mifflin Area High — who feared the influx of kids from nearby Duquesne would mean a whole world of bad.
Most of the fears that parents expressed stemmed from the poor economic conditions in Duquesne, a former steel manufacturing town on the Monongahela River whose dwindling tax base meant supporting a high school no longer was possible.
[ Full story available at: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/seate/s_594703.html ]
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