Man, Dog Found Dead Inside Carrick Home
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CARRICK (KDKA) -- A quaint Carrick home sits wrapped in yellow police tape.
Early Saturday morning, Pittsburgh Police were called to the 500 block of Kirk Avenue. What neighbors initially thought were fireworks may have been gunshots.
When police arrived to check, they found the door of the home open and an adult male and his dog dead inside. Police are investigating it as a homicide.
Neighbor Larissa Lindquist, who lives next door with her husband, says her dog played with the neighbors' dog. She says they were shocked to come outside Saturday morning to find police tape wrapped around her neighbor's front porch. Lindquist tells KDKA-TV News this is "upsetting, shocking and saddening."
Well-publicized problems in Carrick had Lindquist concerned initially when moving to Carrick a year ago, but she found her new street to be beating the odds.
In fact, neighbors say the street wasn't experiencing the same type of crime and drug problems other parts of Carrick and the other Hilltop neighborhoods have been.
According to neighbors, the nephew of the man who lived in the Carrick home was often seen coming and going. The man who lived at the home loved to play opera music, say neighbors, and it would often fill the air outside the normally quiet section of the street.
