One teen was arrested and one hospitalized after a shooting Monday night in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood.
ShotSpotter recorded 13 rounds of gunfire — followed seconds later by two more shots — near the 500 block of Rosedale Street around 7:25 p.m., a police spokeswoman said. Witnesses told police about 10 teens were gathered in the street before the shooting.
Responding officers put a description of the alleged shooter out on the police scanner, according to a criminal complaint. Officers patrolling the neighborhood then spotted a teen matching the description.
The alleged shooter was walking on Oakwood Street with a second teen, the complaint said. When the police cruiser turned to follow them, the teens ran away.
Police said they later apprehended Jaison Martin, 16, of the city’s East Liberty neighborhood.
“I didn’t shoot first!” Martin “spontaneously uttered,” according to the complaint.
Martin told officers someone was “aiming a beam” at his head and he fired in defense, the complaint said. Martin said he might have been grazed by a bullet.
Two shots appeared to have hit a home on Rosedale Street, where seven people live, the complaint said. Officers also found five, spent 9mm bullet casings.
Other officers responding to the shooting found a 14-year-old male, who had been shot in his thigh. They applied a tourniquet to control the bleeding until paramedics arrived on the scene.
First responders took the teen, who authorities have not named, to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in stable condition.
Police charged Martin with six counts, including two felony counts of aggravated assault. Martin is being charged as an adult.
He was arraigned around 1 a.m. Tuesday, court records show. A judge denied him bail.
Crime is down year-over-year in Homewood.
A total of 155 crimes were reported to police in the East End neighborhood this year, though March 4, the most recent Pittsburgh police data available online. Police responded to four aggravated assaults.
There have been no homicides reported in 2026 in Homewood.
During the same period last year, 177 crimes and seven aggravated assaults were reported in Homewood, police data shows. No homicides were reported between Jan. 1 and March 4 last year.