Superintendent: Woman’s Death Was Suicide

June 16, 2020 |

By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News

Carrying signs that said “Black Trans Lives Matter,” demonstrators marched through Downtown McKeesport on June 12. (Kevin Kino video for Tube City Almanac)


The Allegheny County superintendent of police said Monday that a woman who was found dead May 26 outside her apartment on Sinclair Street committed suicide.

County police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said there is no evidence of foul play in the death of Aaliyah Johnson, 32.

In a prepared statement, McDonough said county police generally do not release details of a death investigation “unless there is a related crime or suspicion of a crime,” but because of the intense interest surrounding Johnson’s death, they were making an exception.

 
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Arts Exhibit Debuts as Heritage Center Reopens

June 16, 2020 |

By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements

McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center reopened to the public last week and debuted a new exhibit, “Arts and Entertainment of the Mon Valley.”

The display features the stories of those artists who have come from the Mon Valley and works of entertainment created in the Mon Valley.

The center is operating at 50 percent capacity and will eventually accommodate a larger percentage of visitors once permitted, said Teresa Trich, community outreach director.

 
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West Mifflin Man Killed in City Shooting

June 16, 2020 |

By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News

A West Mifflin man died Monday night after three men opened fire on him at the Crawford Village housing complex.

The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said George A. Brosey, 54, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Allegheny County police Lt. Venerando Costa said the shooting happened outside Building 47.

Police said survelliance video shows Brosey walking up the steps of an acquaintance’s apartment just before 11:30 p.m. when he is approached by a man wearing a light-colored hooded sweatshirt, who walks from between the 47 and 48 buildings.

 
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Duquesne Boys & Girls Club Moving to Larger Space

June 14, 2020 |

By Nick Zurawsky | Posted in: Duquesne News

The Boys & Girls Club of Duquesne-West Mifflin will move from its current location on North Third Street to a larger location in the Duquesne Education Center.

The move is part of a new partnership between the Boys & Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania and the Duquesne City School District, officials said.

Lisa Abel-Palmieri, chief executive officer of BGCWPA, said the location change was scheduled to happen at the end of 2020, but due to budget concerns and lack of visitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift has been moved up six months.

The new facility and partnership will expand the scope of BGCWPA services, with twice as many students being able to take part, she said.

 
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Marchers Seek New Inquiry Into Woman’s Death

June 14, 2020 |

By Staff Reports | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News

(Richard Finch Jr. photo for Tube City Almanac)


More than 300 people marched peacefully through Downtown streets on Friday afternoon to call attention to the plight of a trans woman found dead on Sinclair Street in May.

Friends and family of Aaliyah Johnson, 32, want Allegheny County police to do a more thorough investigation of her death on May 26.

On Thursday, the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office ruled Johnson’s death a suicide, but one of the organizers of the march, Terrance McGeorge, told Tube City Almanac that one of Johnson’s former lovers had threatened to murder her.

 
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Friends Hope March Will Draw Attention to
Plight of Black LGBTQ Community

June 11, 2020 |

By Jason Togyer | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News

Editor’s Note: This is a developing story and will be updated if necessary.

* Correction, 8 p.m. June 11, 2020


A woman who died in a fall from Midtown Towers was in fear for her life before the incident, a childhood friend said Thursday.

Terrance McGeorge said Aaliyah Johnson, who was transgender, was threatened with murder by a man with whom she had been linked, and who was angry and embarrassed because other people might find out.*

McGeorge, who is one of the leaders of a group called Project Matters, is helping to organize a march that is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Friday at the Jerome Avenue Bridge, proceed past the Public Safety Building on Lysle Boulevard, and end near Johnson’s apartment.

The march is intended to be peaceful, he said. Attendees are being asked to wear blue — Johnson’s favorite color — and to carry a candle. Participants should park in the lot near the McKees Point Marina, he said.

 
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Rally Organizers Seek Answers in Woman’s Death

June 11, 2020 |

By Jason Togyer | Posted in: Announcements, McKeesport and Region News

Clarification: An organizer of the event says the vigil and march will start at the Jerome Avenue Bridge, Downtown, not the 15th Avenue Bridge as was originally reported, and will end near the victim’s apartment on Sinclair Street. The march will not proceed to O’Neil Boulevard. Updated June 11, 2 p.m.


Friends and family of a woman who died May 26 in a fall from a Downtown apartment building plan to march on Friday to call attention to the circumstances surrounding her death.

Organizers claim that Allegheny County police have not adequately investigated the death of Aaliyah Denise Johnson, 32, who was pronounced dead after her body was found on a sidewalk in the 500 block of Sinclair Street.

County police told Tube City Almanac that Johnson is believed to have fallen or jumped from her ninth-floor window at Midtown Towers and that surveillance cameras showed that no one entered or left her apartment before or after the incident.

But Johnson, who was an MC at local events and clubs, and also worked as a hairstylist and makeup artist, had a large social media following. Her friends said she was targeted for harassment and abuse because she was Black and transgender.

 
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Council OK’s Demolition of Vacant Church

June 11, 2020 |

By Jason Togyer | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News

McKeesport city council has approved the demolition of a former Hungarian church just off Evans Avenue.

At the June 3 meeting, council awarded a $77,900 contract to demolish the former St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church on Beacon Street to Lutterman Excavating of Greensburg. Lutterman was the lowest responsible bidder, city officials said.

Built in 1900 and 1901 to serve the city’s Hungarian Catholic population, St. Stephen’s closed in 2002 following the death of its longtime pastor, the Rev. Stephen Kato, who had first come to the parish in 1962.

 
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Police Log: Contractor Accused of Fraud

June 10, 2020 |

By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News

• Arrest records published here were provided by the McKeesport Police Department.
• Not all arrest records are published.
• An arrest does not mean the person identified has been convicted of a crime.
• All people arrested are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

 
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City Seeks Funds for Bike Trail Study

June 10, 2020 |

By Jason Togyer | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News

McKeesport officials are envisioning a day when the regional hiking and biking trail network could be connected to Renziehausen Park, Grandview and other city neighborhoods.

By 6-0 vote, council this month approved an application to the Active Allegheny grant program for $81,000 for a project called “Pedestrian Access to McKeesport’s Trail Systems.”

Administered by the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County, the Active Allegheny program provides financial assistance to municipalities to develop bicycle and pedestrian connections from neighborhoods to local destinations, and increase opportunities for residents to get exercise.

 
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