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Considered Armed & Dangerous: Arrest Warrant Issued In East Hills Homicide

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EAST HILLS (KDKA) -- Pittsburgh Police are searching for a man wanted on criminal homicide charges in connection to a shooting that happened in the East Hills.

Pittsburgh Police said Thursday they obtained an arrest warrant for 24-year-old Leonard Bernard Hilton, of Sheraden, in connection to a fatal shooting that happened on May 25.

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Officers were sent to Park Hill Drive around 4 a.m. that day for a report of a shooting. At the scene, they found 32-year-old Matthew Anthony Zinnermon suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Zinnermon had been shot several times in the back. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Hilton will be charged with criminal homicide and firearms violations.

Police say he was being held in the Allegheny County Jail on a bench warrant in connection with theft and receiving stolen property charges. However, he was released from jail Thursday afternoon.

Investigators are urging Hilton to turn himself in.

They say the public should consider him armed and dangerous.

If anyone know of his whereabouts, call Pittsburgh Police homicide detectives at (412)-323-7161.

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