Shooter opens fire during Lincoln-Lemington cookout

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

When a man in a car started shooting at a cookout in LincolnLemington just before 5 p.m. Wednesday, one bullet smashed through the bedroom window of a 73-year-old grandmother.

She jumped up, grabbed her two grandchildren, ages 7 and 10, and cowered on the floor of her apartment at 7200 Everton St. for about 20 minutes.

She could hear people screaming and running outside, where about two dozen people had been grilling out. At one point during the fracas, she turned around and realized a small boy, maybe 5, had run in from outside and was hiding with them in the hallway.

“I knew who he belonged to,” she said. She pulled him closer.

About a dozen children were shot at during the drive-by at 7200 Everton St.; they ranged in age from 3 months to 9 years, according to police.

No one was injured. The grandmother, who asked not to be identified out of fear for her safety, said that’s close to miraculous.

“It could have been kids’ bodies laying all up there,” she said, shaking her head.

The bullet that went through her own window was stopped by the metal frame of a poster she’d propped against the pane to try to keep out a draft.

Authorities are looking for a man they believe emptied a sixshot revolver at a group of about