17-year-old found shot to death inside Wilkins Township apartment building

A young woman is facing charges after a teenager was found shot to death inside an apartment at the Brentmoor at Penn Center in Wilkins Township, authorities said. 

Rayohna Hexstall, 20, is facing involuntary manslaughter and recklessly endangering another person charges in the death of 17-year-old Ni'Dreyah Marshall, the Allegheny County Police Department said. Hexstall is awaiting her preliminary hearing, court records show. 

County police said that dispatchers were first notified that a woman was found shot in an apartment at the building along Penn Center Boulevard shortly after 3 a.m. on Monday. 

County police said that when officers responded to the scene, they found the victim, who had been shot and was unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office identified her as Marshall. 

Phillip Early has lived at the complex for a few years. He said he didn't hear about what happened until Monday morning. He and others received a text from the leasing office about a woman found shot to death inside her apartment.

A few tenants were shocked, like Bernadette, who has lived there for seven months.

"This is a good building, a good area to live in, and to hear something like that, it's like wow," she said.   

Detectives from the Allegheny County Police Department's Homicide Unit are now investigating what led up to the deadly shooting. No other information about the shooting was released. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the county police tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS.