ATF agent shoots an eighteen-year-old Aliquippa High School student in Aliquippa; student dies in a hospital early next morning

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that yesterday evening, agents from both the ATF and the FBI working in a joint investigation were involved in a fatal shooting incident. According to officials, the shooting happened on Waugaman Street at the Linmar Terrace housing complex in Aliquippa around 6:20 p.m. yesterday. Aliquippa Mayor Dwan Walker confirmed that an ATF agent shot a boy that went to Aliquippa High School. Sources told KDKA the boy was shot in the head. According to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office, eighteen-year-old Kendric Curtis was flown to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and died there shortly after 3 a.m. this morning. Aliquippa School District Superintendent Dr. Phillip Woods said that a Trauma Support Team will be on-site at the Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School today when students arrive. Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School students can also go to the library there to find support resources throughout today as they need it.