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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A Pittsburgh man charged in a deadly shooting last year has pleaded guilty to federal firearms charges. 

According to the United States Department of Justice, Keenan Tolliver, 32, pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating a federal firearms law. 

Authorities said a loaded handgun was found inside the center console of a vehicle Tolliver was driving in February 2025. Because of prior felony convictions, he was prohibited from possessing a firearm. 

Federal prosecutors said Tolliver has previously been convicted of 10 felony or first-degree misdemeanor offenses. 

Tolliver was also identified as a suspect in a 2017 Pittsburgh police chase in which he was accused of attempting to strike officers with a vehicle. 

In a separate case, Tolliver faces charges in connection with a fatal shooting in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood in 2025. 

He is scheduled to be sentenced in the federal firearms case on Sept. 16 and faces up to 15 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both. 

Tolliver is also scheduled to appear in court May 13 in the homicide case.