Woman, 20, found shot, killed in Aliquippa alley

ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — An investigation is underway in Aliquippa after a woman’s body was found early Saturday morning in an alley.

A police source tells Channel 11 that the investigation began on Friday around 10 p.m. when Aliquippa police got at least one call about shots fired. They investigated the report but didn’t find anything.

Someone called police around 4 a.m. Saturday to report finding the woman’s body by a railing in an alley on Reed Street behind homes on the 1200 block of Wade Street, the source said.

Police call the victim a “younger woman” in her teens to early 20s and say she was shot. She didn’t have any identification on her.

On Sunday, Beaver County Coroner David Gabauer identified the woman as Treonna Washington, 20, of Aliquippa. He said she was shot once in the head and her death has been ruled a homicide.

“That’s pretty close to home and it being a female is even more concerning,” said Shane Hibbs, a neighbor.

It’s unclear if the phone call for shots fired was in the same area where the woman’s body was later found.

A single gunshot can be heard in a doorbell camera video facing the alley on Reed Street in the Plan12 neighborhood just before 10 p.m. Friday.

“At first, I thought it was fireworks or something,” said Ahnestii Lee, 15. “I wasn’t even sure, but it’s so scary that someone died.”

Lee and her mother Cindy Bobrowski were in their home a street over when they heard the shot fire just before 10 Friday night.

“I heard the gunshot,” Bobrowski said. “I heard on the scanner that somebody called. It’s like it’s so often anymore that you don’t hear it. You hear it but you don’t hear it.”

Several hours after the deadly shooting when the woman’s body was found, state police canvassed the area and spoke with community members about what they might have seen.

Neighbors said they’re all too familiar with the sounds of gunfire.

“You hear gunshots pretty often, several times a week I’d say on a bad week,” Hibbs said. “It’s unfortunately too common.”

Bobrowski agreed.

“It’s all the time,” she said. “I want to move. I want to move.”

Investigators were going door to door Saturday morning asking neighbors for surveillance video to try and figure out what might have led up to the deadly shooting.

The victim has not yet been identified.

This is a developing story that will be updated as Channel 11 learns more.

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