Their identities were not available.
Police cordoned off Amanda Street in the borough at Brownsville Road near a Rite Aid pharmacy. The three boys were shot about 7 p.m. on a set of steps near the store, and the adult was shot on the opposite side of the street. Police found multiple shell casings at the scene.
The adult victim told police that the driver and front-seat passenger of a dark-colored car were shooting out of both sides of the vehicle as they headed north on Amanda. Police had made no arrests as of late Friday.
A woman who would identify herself only as Lauren L. said she had stepped out of the Rite Aid, where she works, to smoke a cigarette when she heard about seven gunshots. A bullet whizzed by her head and struck one of the drugstore’s glass doors, shattering part of it, and she dropped to the ground.
“It wasn`t until I watched the tape that I realized how serious it really was,” she said, referring to the store’s video surveillance system.
Kurt Miller, 25, whose family owns a hardware store near the scene, said he heard “quite a few” gunshots and locked himself inside the store.
“Before you even realized it started, it was over,” he said. “It’s a tragedy.”
Halley White, 19, who recently moved to the area and was walking near the crime scene, said the gunfire was “scary.”
“This makes me want to go home and not walk around anymore,” she said. “We shouldn’t have to be scared to leave our homes and walk down a main street.”
Allegheny County police also were investigating.
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