Pittsburgh police responded to the noise nuisance 90 minutes before the mass shooting

Pittsburgh police had visited the scene of Sunday’s deadly mass shooting at an Airbnb rental about 90 minutes before gunfire erupted over a noise complaint call, a report said.

Surveillance footage from a neighbor of the Northside residence appeared to show partygoers and a police vehicle exiting the home around 11 p.m., the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Police confirmed that a neighbor had filed a noise complaint about the underage party.

An hour and a half later, about 90 shots were fired in the crowded home and surrounding streets of the neighborhood known to locals as Deutschtown.

Two 17-year-old teenagers were fatally shot and eight others were injured by gunfire.

Five other victims were injured in the chaotic aftermath of the shooting as people fled for their lives, jumping from windows and suffering broken bones and lacerations.

The officer who responded to the noise complaint knocked on the door of the home and was greeted by a man coming down the stairs, the Post-Gazette reported. The officer asked the unidentified man to turn down the music and he complied.

Before the officer left, he told the man that if he had to return on another complaint, he would have to close the party. The policeman left the house without filing a complaint.

Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert said no suspects had been identified as of Monday, due in part to the sheer number of people at the party.

The teenagers killed were identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office as Matthew Steffy-Ross of Pitcairn and Jaiden Brown. Both were pronounced dead at the hospital.

Brown was a senior at Woodland Hills High School, the school confirmed. In a letter to the school community, Acting Superintendent Daniel Catagna said the school – which had ended the Easter holidays – would be offering counseling services to students and staff.

“Let’s exercise patience during this difficult time and be the example our students and families need right now,” he urged district teachers. “Violence affects students at every level and in every building, so tomorrow they need us more than ever.”

Steffy-Ross was a student at Grace Non Traditional Christian Academy, the school confirmed to the Post Gazette. He had attended the school, which provides education and career planning to vulnerable populations, just two months before his death.

In a statement following the Easter violence, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey called for action as “our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the victims, their loved ones and our entire city…”

“It is critical that we come together now to help reduce the violence that is taking place now, as we begin the long-term work to end the culture of violence that enables the senseless loss of life we ​​are witnessing today,” he wrote.

Neighbor Mitchell Wilston, 30, who used his security cameras to capture the officer who responded to the noise complaint, described the party to the newspaper as “chaos” and full of underage children.

The Easter morning shooting is the worst since the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in 2018, which killed 11 worshipers.