(Photo Courtesy of WTAE-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on January 18th, 2026)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Ambridge, PA) More details are emerging as the investigation continues into the shooting deaths of thirty-eight-year-old Ashley Anne Delucca of Ambridge and fifty-four-year-old Andre Littles of Pittsburgh in Ambridge on Sunday. This happened at a house on Locust Street and investigators confirm that it happened at around 2:30 a.m. According to the criminal complaint, there was an argument that led up to the shooting. A 15-year-old girl inside the house called a sibling elsewhere to say that shots were fired. An eleven-year-old boy allegedly told police they heard gunfire upstairs that left Delucca and Littles dead. The suspect, thirty-nine-year-old Howard James Thomas Jr. of Ambridge, came out of the house and fired shots at a neighbor’s house as a neighbor went back inside. Court papers express that DeLucca got an Uber for Littles and the children to come over to the house. The children told police they were in the basement of the house where the shooting took place for several hours and could hear arguments between DeLucca, Littles, Thomas, and another person. Thomas is now in custody and court records confirm he faces charges of homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, prohibited possession of a firearm by a felon, carrying an unlicensed firearm and firing a weapon in an occupied space. Investigators state that Thomas was arrested after crashing in Zanesville, Ohio and they found three untraceable ghost guns in the home. It remains unclear at this time when he will be brought back to Pennsylvania.











