Late Thursday night, tragedy struck the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Brighton Heights when a young woman, Danasia Lighty, was discovered inside a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds. The heartbreaking incident took place near an elementary school, further amplifying the shockwaves through the community. It’s as if the silence of the night was broken with not just gunshots but with the perplexity of an unforeseen storm hitting a calm sea.
Rapid Response to ShotSpotter Alert
Officers and firefighters raced to the scene after a 12-round ShotSpotter detection near the junction of Fleming and Falck avenues, a burstiness of sirens cutting through the quiet of the night. Upon their arrival, they found the 25-year-old Pittsburgh native, Lighty, grievously injured inside her vehicle.
The vicinity of the incident was unsettlingly close to Pittsburgh Public’s Morrow Elementary School, a place of learning now shadowed by this recent tragedy. Analogous to an alarm interrupting a deep sleep, the shooting near such a place meant for growth and development jolted the entire neighborhood.
