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Teen-Ager Charged in Death of His Infant Son

By Staff Reports
The Tube City Almanac
May 31, 2017
Posted in: Crime and Police News

A McKeesport teen-ager has been charged with homicide after Allegheny County police accused him of suffocating to death his four-month-old son.

De-John Johnson, 16, was arrested this afternoon after the Allegheny County medical examiner's office ruled the death of Isaiah Brooks-Leonard a homicide.

He is being charged as an adult, county police Sgt. Scott Scherer said.

The Allegheny County medical examiner's office today said Isaiah Brooks-Leonard died of asphyxiation due to smothering. The incident happened at 3:43 a.m. Feb. 6 in a home in the 2400 block of Banker Street in the city, the medical examiner's office said.

Brooks-Leonard died a short time later at UPMC McKeesport hospital, the ME's office said.

Court officials said Johnson is awaiting a preliminary hearing in Pittsburgh Municipal Court on a single charge of criminal homicide.

Originally published May 31, 2017.

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