Three dead, one injured in Pittsburgh restaurant shooting; three masked men flee on foot
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Posted 7:04AM on Saturday, January 26, 2002
PITTSBURGH - Three masked men entered a sandwich shop and opened fire, killing two men and a young girl, police said. <br>
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Witnesses to Friday's shooting said it appeared the gunmen were targeting a man in a wheelchair, who was one of the people killed. A woman also was injured. <br>
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Police did not release the names of the victims, but witnesses said the man in the wheelchair was paralyzed in another shooting in the mid-1990s. <br>
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Police said they were looking for three black males in their late teens or early 20s. <br>
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The young girl, who police said was 6 or 7, was brought to a hospital and died shortly afterward, hospital officials said. The third fatality also died at a hospital, police said. <br>
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The injured woman remained in serious condition early Saturday. <br>
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The shooting occurred shortly after 7 p.m. in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood. Police said the three men fled the restaurant on foot. <br>
