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Study finds homicides in Allegheny County concentrated to just a few neighborhoods

By Patrick Damp

July 29, 2022 / 5:26 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

Study finds Allegheny County homicides concentrated in certain neighborhoods

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A new study shows Allegheny County homicides are concentrated in a small number of neighborhoods.

The county had been seeing declining homicide rates but that began reversing beginning last year.

Wilkinsburg has seen the highest homicide rate of any county municipality in the last five years.

McKees Rocks and Rankin are the next highest.

The study found young, Black men are most impacted by the violence.

Allegheny County

Patrick Damp

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.