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Suspect In Youth Football Coach Shooting Arrested

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Pittsburgh Police have arrested a man accused of shooting a youth football coach on Friday.

The U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force took 33-year-old Anthony Lamont Hines Jr., of Sharpsburg, into custody just after 2 p.m. Sunday in Monroeville.

He was taken to the Allegheny County Jail.

Anthony Lamont Hines Jr.
(Photo Credit: Pittsburgh Police)

The shooting happened on Friday around 7 p.m. during a youth football practice at Mellon Park.

According to police, Hines Jr. approached the coach and the two got into a verbal altercation. Eyewitnesses say that Hines Jr. then shot the coach several times and fled the scene.

Boys between the ages of 7 and 12 were on the field at the time of the shooting.

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Sources say the alleged gunman was angry about a relative not getting playing time.

No one else was hurt.

The coach was last reported to be in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries.

Hines Jr. is facing charges of criminal attempted homicide, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, firearms violations and a violation of an active PFA.

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