The Pittsburgh teen who was shot in a North Hills parking lot last week and died a short distance away “was targeted,” Allegheny County Police said Friday.
Jordan Nathan Ross Geiger, 18, was shot once in the torso in a Giant Eagle parking lot in the 100 block of Ohio Township’s Ben Avon Heights Road on Aug. 2, county police said.
He was alone and crashed his Chevrolet Cobalt moments later on Ben Avon Heights Road near Gass Road.
“The victim was targeted, and this was not a random shooting,” county police said Friday in a press release.
Police also confirmed they had recovered two vehicles — a white Chevy Traverse and a blue-gray Honda Accord with New York license plates — in connection with the homicide.
Detectives previously sought the public’s help to try to identify people inside the vehicles that night.
Earlier this week, authorities said they hoped cell phone or dashboard camera videos from the Ohio Township parking lot will provide clues about who fatally shot Geiger.
Police were dispatched to the scene at 6:20 p.m.
First responders found good Samaritans performing CPR on Geiger, who was in cardiac arrest, county police said.
Paramedics rushed Geiger to the hospital, where the Allegheny County Medical Examiner said he died at 7:04 p.m. The death was ruled a homicide.
County police are asking anyone who heard a gunshot Friday in the Ben Avon Heights area between 6 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. to contact the county police tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
Justin Vellucci is a TribLive reporter covering crime and public safety in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. A longtime freelance journalist and former reporter for the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, he worked as a general assignment reporter at the Trib from 2006 to 2009 and returned in 2022. He can be reached at jvellucci@triblive.com.