Pittsburgh Police gather outside the Destiny of Faith Church in Pittsburgh, Friday Oct. 28, 2022, where a shooting while a funeral was being held, left several people wounded. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
PITTSBURGH (AP) — An independent review panel has opened an investigation into the lack of a police presence despite a request for it at a Pittsburgh funeral where a shooting left six people injured last month. Two shooters opened fire outside the Destiny of Faith Church on Oct. 28 during a funeral for a man slain two weeks earlier. Elizabeth Pittinger, executive director of the Citizens Police Review Board, said officers should have been there because police knew about intergroup tensions that could pose a risk. She asked whether supervision, communication or insubordination problems were to blame for that and similar incidents and said that’s why the review board opened its inquiry.