PENN HILLS, Pa. — Allegheny County Police are investigating a deadly stabbing in Penn Hills.
No suspect has been named, but police tell us the suspect is accounted for, and the public is not in danger.
County Police say they were notified of the incident on the 700 block of Penny Lane just after 9:30 p.m. on Thursday. A woman had been stabbed there.
The medical examiner identified the victim as 45-year-old Jinx Hairston. She’d been stabbed twice in the chest several hours earlier and driven to UPMC Mercy.
Outside Hairston’s home on Penny Drive on Friday, one neighbor told Channel 11 she heard a commotion.
“I’m in bed and I hear a man yelling. I hear a car zooming down the street and police going as well,” Tuvara Waters said.
Neighbors say Hairston had lived in her Penny Drive home for years and raised children in the neighborhood.
It’s the same street where police recovered a Cadillac they say had been used in a series of incidents, Thursday, including a hit and run involving two teen girls in Wilkinsburg.
Channel 11 obtained video of a car fitting the same description appearing to hit two men on Sampson Street in Penn Hills. One of those men told us he suffered multiple broken bones.
George Kevin Mitchell was charged in the Wilkinsburg incident, but no charges have been filed in the other hit-and-run.
Meanwhile, people on Penny Drive continue to come to grips with the murder of a neighbor.
“Nothing really goes on here. I’m absolutely shocked,” Waters said.
“We’ve known of these folks for a while. To have something like this [happen] is hard to fathom,” Barry Smith said.
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