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Man Fatally Shot Outside Mosque In Wilkinsburg, SWAT Called During Search For Suspect

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WILKINSBURG (KDKA) -- It was an emotional scene Friday evening outside the Mohammed Mosque in Wilkinsburg, near the spot where a man was shot multiple times.

Earlier in the day, Allegheny County Police were sent to the intersection of South Avenue and Coal Street, around 1:45 p.m., for a report of a shooting.

A neighbor administered first aid to the shooting victim before paramedics arrived on the scene. But the man died from his wounds at a hospital a few hours after the shooting.

The victim has been identified as 29-year-old Dwayne Lamar Tolbert-McGhee, of Pitcairn.

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Brandon Thomas works at a group home across the street from the mosque. He told KDKA-TV'S Ralph Iannotti that he didn't know the victim personally, but he would often see him outside.

"My heart goes out to the family, to the victim," Thomas said. "I just pray something like this doesn't happen again. I would see him outside the mosque almost every day, selling papers and oils."

After the shooting, first Wilkinsburg Police and then an Allegheny County SWAT team surrounded a nearby three-story apartment building on Ross Avenue.

They were looking for the gunman who fled the mosque area on foot.

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Allegheny County Police Lt. Andrew Schurman said, "Multiple witnesses saw a black man wearing a red shirt and black pants running from the scene just moments after the shooting. That man was then seen entering a vacant apartment building two blocks from the area. Wilkinsburg Police then called for an Allegheny County SWAT Team."

The heavily-armed officers secured the apartment building, and then went from the basement to the third floor looking for a possible suspect.

Then, around 6 o'clock, the all clear signal was given with no sign of the gunman.

Anyone who has any information on the shooting is asked to call Allegheny County Police at 1-833-ALL-TIPS.

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