(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Allegheny County and WPXI)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(East Allegheny, PA) A man was sentenced for his role in a deadly triple shooting that happened in Pittsburgh on October 15th, 2022. According to the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office yesterday, twenty-five-year-old Jaylone Hines of Pittsburgh, was sentenced to 12.5-25 years in prison. The shooting occurred in East Allegheny at a bus stop on the 300 block of Cedar Avenue. Police responded to reports of 27 shots fired and found thirty-three-year-old Jacquelyn C. Mehalic and fifty-nine-year-old Betty J. Averytt dead at the scene. Those two victims were waiting for a bus and had nothing to do with the shooting. Twenty-year-old John Hornezes was also found shot and he later died at a hospital. According to police, the incident was a shootout between two rival groups.