This article is about the 2016 mass shooting. For the 2000 racially motivated shooting spree, see 2000 Wilkinsburg shooting.
Mass shooting
2016 Wilkinsburg shooting
Location of Pennsylvania in the United States
Location
Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date
March 9, 2016; 8 years ago (March 9, 2016) c. 11:00 p.m.
Attack type
mass shooting
Weapons
7.62×39mm rifle
.40-caliber pistol[1]
Deaths
6 (including an unborn child)
Injured
3
Perpetrators
Unknown
Accused
Cheron Shelton and Robert Thomas[2]
Verdict
Not guilty
On March 9, 2016, six people were killed and three others injured in a mass shooting at a suburban house in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, near Pittsburgh. One of the victims was a pregnant woman, whose unborn baby was added to the number of fatalities on the day after the shooting. Two men, Cheron Shelton and Robert Thomas, were charged in connection with the shooting, but charges against Thomas were later dropped and Shelton was acquitted at trial in 2020.
^Stroud, Matt; Rosenberg, Eli (March 10, 2016). "Gunmen Open Fire on Backyard Party Near Pittsburgh, Killing 5". The New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
^Navratil, Liz; Ward, Paula Reed (June 23, 2016). "Two charged in Wilkinsburg mass shooting". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
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