Here are some of the latest news items happening this morning, Friday, June 13:
Police investigate Shadyside robbery
Pittsburgh police are investigating after a robbery Thursday in the city’s Shadyside neighborhood.
Officials said officers were dispatched to the 200 block of South Highland Avenue just before noon.
An employee told officers that two masked juveniles had entered the store, pepper-sprayed the worker, stole merchandise and fled. Officials said the robbers had a suspected firearm during the robbery.
The employee had a minor cut to the elbow from glass that broke during the altercation but denied medical treatment, public safety officials said.
The investigation is ongoing.
Harmar police seeking driver who struck pedestrian
Harmar police are looking for a car that struck a pedestrian Thursday night.
A 28-year-old woman, who police have not identified, was struck by a vehicle on Freeport Road around 10:13 p.m., Police Chief Jason Domaratz told TribLive.
The woman was using a crosswalk near Alpha Drive West to get to a bus shelter when she was hit, Domaratz said.
The woman was taken to the hospital, where she is in critical but stable condition, Domaratz said.
The driver fled the scene, the chief said.
Domaratz said police are hoping to get video footage from nearby businesses Friday for additional details on the incident. Police believe the car was a dark-colored, four-door sedan. Its front end is likely damaged from the crash, Domaratz said.
The car was traveling north along Freeport Road when it hit the woman, he said, and police believe it got on the Turnpike at the Allegheny Valley interchange following the hit.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Harmar police department at 724-274-5525.
Driver injured in Tarentum crash
A driver was injured in a crash Wednesday on Route 28 northbound near Tarentum.
PennDOT spokesman Steve Cowan said the wreck was reported around 10 p.m. and the road reopened just after midnight.
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Bertha Cazy in a statement said a vehicle crashed into a guiderail and over a hillside. The driver was ejected from the vehicle and taken to a hospital for “suspected serious injuries to his lower extremities.”
Additional information was not available.