Community forum

JUNE 23—The Allegheny County Department of Human Services and Wilkinsburg’s Weed and Seed will host a Community Forum from 4-7 p.m. at South Avenue United Methodist Church, 733 South Ave., Wilkinsburg. The theme is “Everything Counts” and the purpose is to hear from residents about their thoughts regarding the needs, strengths and resources available to Wilkinsburg. For more information, call 412-350-6897.

Authorities are looking for the suspects responsible for killing three individuals and injuring another, Tuesday morning around 1 a.m. at a birthday party at a Crawford Village apartment on Nessley Avenue in McKeesport.

Two men reportedly forced their way into the apartment where Brittany Poindexter was celebrating her 18th birthday, demanding money and then began opening fire. Victims Tre Madden, 17; Jahard Poin­dexter, 30; and Angela Sanders, 23, were shot and killed. Madden’s brother, Marcus, was grazed in the head by a bullet and has been treated and released.

No suspects have been identified. This is just one of several killings that have occurred in the last week in the McKeesport area.

Anyone with information is asked to call McKeesport or Allegheny County police.

Looking for information

City of Pittsburgh police are looking for information on the person or persons responsible for a shooting early Tuesday morning. Authorities reportedly responded to call where an unidentified 19-year-old male from the Hill District was reportedly shot in the 2400 block of Chauncey Drive and ran to the 2300 block of Bedford Avenue for help. He was taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the upper chest and the buttocks. His name has not been released and no arrests have been made. Anyone with information is asked to call the Homicide Squad at 412-323-7161.

The battle against police brutality raged on over the weekend when the newly formed Alliance for Police Accountability held a rally calling for justice for Jordan Miles at Freedom Corner in the Hill District.

Miles, a soon-to-be graduate of the Pittsburgh Public High School for Creative and Performing Arts, was allegedly beaten by three undercover police officers in January.

JUSTICE FOR JORDAN—Organizers march in Downtown Pittsburgh on their way to the City-County building.

“We as a people need to do something about police brutality,” said Raenelle Dixon, whose father Charles Dixon was killed in 2002 by a Wilkinsburg police officer.

The rally on June 12 featured a number of speakers, including Tim Stevens of the Black Political Empowerment Project; activist rapper Jasiri X; community activist Paradise Gray; Green Party congressional candidate Ed Bortz; Bret Grote of the activist group HRC-Fed Up, and Miles’ mother and grandmother and some friends from CAPA.