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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A man from Wilkinsburg who was convicted of shooting and killing a 15-year-old boy in Homewood could spend the rest of his life in prison. Court documents confirm that yesterday was when a judge sentenced Shaun Scott to 35 years to life for the death of the teenager in 2022. October 20th, 2025 was when Scott was convicted of that murder. The fifteen-year-old victim was shot in the head when he was waiting to cross the street in Homewood on his minibike on March 30th, 2022 and that victim later died at the hospital. According to police, Scott, who was seventeen years old at the time, fired three shots and hit the boy once in the head. Scott is also charged with a second deadly shooting because he is accused of killing eighteen-year-old Maleek Thomas in the Hill District of Pittsburgh on June 24th, 2022, because Scott reportedly told police he was throwing rocks at windows outside an apartment building on Chauncy Drive, trying to get the attention of people because the music was too loud. When Thomas approached Scott and asked him who he was, Scott told police that he put on a mask, pulled out a gun and shot him. The trial for Scott in regards to the murder of Thomas is set to start in February.