>> THE POLICE CHIEF AND THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF INVESTIGATIONS, AND WE ALSO JOINED BY REPRESENTATIVES FROM ED GAINEY’S OFFICE WHO WLIL BE PROVIDING A STATEMENT. THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR QUESTIONS AFTERWARD. I TURNED IT OVER TO THE POLICE CHIEF. -- I TURN IT OVER TO THE POLICE IECHF. >> THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. I WISH WE WERNOE T. AS YOU KNOW, SHOLYRT AFTER 12:30 MIDNIGHT, THERE WAS A REPORT, REPEATED REPORTS FROM A SHOTSPOTTER OF MULTIPLE ROUNDS BEING FIRED. THEY ARRIVED ON SCENE AND THERE WAS A LARGE CROWD OUT IN THE STREETN SUISMAN. OFFICERS FROM ACROSS THE CYIT CAME TO ASSIST. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE. OTRHE SWORD -- OTHER OUTSIDE RESTRICTIONS HELP THWI THE MULTIPLE CRIME SCENES, THE CROWDS AND TRYING TO GET HP ELTO THE PEOPLEHO W NEEDED IT. THE MEDICS ARRIVED AND WERE ABLE TO HELP TRANSPORT VICMSTI AND OUR OFFICERS AS WELL. TRYING TO GET VICTIMS, THE HOPE THAT THEY NEEDED IN THE SPHOITAL. WE HAD CALLS THAT CAME IN FOR VICTIMS IN VARIOUHOS SPITALS OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH AS WELL. SADLY, WEAD H TWO VICTIMS FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS DIE. BOTH UNDER THE AGE OF 18. WE HAD AN ADDITIONAL EIGHT THUS SUFFERED GUNSHOT WOUSND -- THAT SUFFERED GUNSHOT WOUNDS THAT ARE BEING TREATED FOR THEIR INJURIES. HAD ADDITIONAL FIVE VICMSTI -- WE HAD ADDITIONAL FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE INJUDRE FROM DRUG- - JUMPING OUT OF WINDOWS AND TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE AREA. WE HAD A VICTIM FROM THEIR CAR BEING SHUT UP AND ANOTHER FMRO A NON-INJURY RELATED INCIDENT. IT IS HEARTBREAKING. WE HAVE MUIPLTLE FAMILIES THAT WILL NOT SEE A LOVED ONE. OTHERS ARE GOING TO BE, HOW CAN YOU EVEN HAVE A HOLIDAY WHEN URYO CHILD WAS INVOLVED IN SOMETHING DRAMATIC LIKE THIS? IF THE INCIDENT, THIS IS TRAUMATIZING TO OUR OFFICERS. THE CALL CAME IN FROM MULTIPLE SHOTS FIRED, THE SHOTSPOTTER’S CAME IN FOR OVER 90 ROUNDS, OTHER WAS A LOT MORE THAN THAT BETWEEN INSIDE THE STRUCTURE AND OUTSIDE. THOSE OFFICERS DID NOT HESITATE, THEN WENT IN AND TRY TO HELP PEOPLE. TRY TO REALLY CONNECT THE MULTIPLE CRIME SCHEMES -- SCENES AROUND THE AREA. I CANNOT SAY ENOUGH ABOUT THE OFFICERS FOR THEY DID. NOW WE VEHA TO FOCUS ON GETTING THOSE WHO WERE INVOLVED WITH THE SHOOTING. OUR HOMICIDE DETECTIVES ARE INDOG EVERYTHING THAT THEY CAN TO PIECE THIS TOGETHER. TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THE EVIDENCE THAT WE NEED. WE HAVE HAD SOME WHO HAVE COME FORWARD TO ASSIST US AND WE APPRECIATE THAT. THAT HELPS US. WE KNOW THAT TREHE WAS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AT THAT PARTY. AT THAT AIRBNB. WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT OTHERS WILL COME FORWARD AS WELL. WE ARE SURE THAT THERE ARE VIDEOS, PHOTOGRAPHS, FROM THAT LOCATION. WE ARE SETTING UP ETH LINK WHICH WILL BE PROVIDED FOR YOU. ANYBODY CAN PROVIDE ANY VIDEO, PH OTOGRAPHS, ANYTHING. WE OWE IT TO EVERYBODY IN ETH CITY TO GET TSEHO WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE. JUVENILES WERE AT THIS LOCATION. AT LEAST MULTIPLE WEAPONS, DIFFERENT CASINGS THAT WE HAVE FOUND. IT IS OUR TOP PRIORITY TO FIND OUT WHO DID THIS. GET THEM OFF AT THE STREET. WE ARE ASKING THE PUBLIC IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION,F IOU Y WERE THERE, IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING, PLEASE COME FORWARD WITH THE INFORMATION. YOU CAN CONTACT HOMICIDE BY CALLING 412-323-7800. IT WOULD TAKE THE INFORMATION, ENEV IF IT IS ANONYMOUSLY. EVERY BIT HELPS US WITH THE INVESTIGATION. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE GET THE COOPERATI WONE HAVE BEEN GETTING TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING THESE PEOPLE OFF OF THE STREETS. OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO THE VI CTIMS, THE FAMILIES, ANYBODY WHO WAS TRAUMATIZED FROM THIS INCIDENT. ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. THIS GOES BACK TO HAVING TOO NYMA GUNS, TOO MANY ILLEGAL GUNS ON THE STREETS. TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE ACCESS TO THESE ILLEGAL WEAPONS. WHERE THEY CAN BE USED LIKE THIS, THEES ARE A MAJORITY OF JUVENILES AND YOU VEHA ALCOHOL, DRUGS, GUNS, IANN AIRBNB. MANY WERE THERE NOT FOR ANY OF THIS THAT OCCURRED, BUT OTHERS WERE THERE. THEY USED THIS STUFF AND INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE STRUCK. ON BEHALF OF THE PITTSBURGH POLICE AND I KNOW THAT THE MAYOR WISHES HE COULD HAVE BEEN HERE AS WELL, THIS IS OUR PRIORITY. WE ARE NOT GOING TO SLEEP UNTIL WE GET WHO DID THIS. THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. WE ARE SICK ABOUT IT. WE ARE GOING TDOO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO GET THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. WE OWE IT TO THE VICTIMS, THEIR FAMILIES, THEIR COMMUNITIES. THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY RIGHT NOW. I WILL BE WILLING TO ANSWER WHAT I CAN AND I WANT TO QUALIFY IT WITH THIS IS STILL AN ACTIVE, ONGOING INVESTIGATION. THERE ARE SOME THINGS I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT BUT I WILL DO THE BEST I CAN TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. >>RE A THERE MULTIPLE VICTIMS? >> IT IS 10. TWO SADLY DIED. >> YOU MENTIONED MULTIPLE SHOW CASINGS. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE SHOOTERS OR PEOPLE SHOOTING AT EACH OTHER? >> WHO BELIEVE THAT THERE WERE MULTIPLE SHOOTERS. >>AS W THERE A 911 CALL? >> I CAN TELL YOU WE WERE ALERTED FROM OUR SHOTSPOTTER ACTIVATIONS. >> THERE WERE POLICE AT THE PARTY, AND THEY REWE WONDERING WHY THE PARTY WAS NOT BROKEN UP SOONER. >> I CAN LOOK INTO IT. LET’S HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO THE PEOP ALET AIRBNB? >> I CANNOT SPEAK TO THAT BECAUSE I HAVEO NKNOWLEDGE OF IT. >> THERE IS NOBODY IN CUSTODY AT THIS TE?IM >> ANY LEADS AT ALL ON POSSIEBL MOTI?VE >> I CANNOT SPEAK TO THAT RIGHT NOW, SORRY. >> THIS IS A SIMILAR QUESTION, DO KNOW IF THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE OF A FIGHT OR DISAGREEMENT? >> THERE WAS AN ALTERCATION THAT OCCURRED SHOLYRT AFTER THE GUNSHOTS WERE EXCHANGED AND THERE WAS GOOD AND SHOTS INSIDE OFHE T RESIDENCE, AND POTENTIALLY BACK AND FORTH. >>TENTIALLY BACK AND FORTH. DO YOU HAVE ANY INDICATION OF WHO DID THIS? >> THAT IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. I DO NOT WANT TO SPEAKTO THAT PREMATURELY. >> POLICE RESPONDING TO SHOOTINGS AFTERWARDS? >> YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO WERE FLEEING, TRYING TO GET OUT OF THERE. YOU HAD OFFICERS AND MEDICS WHO ARE TRYI TNGO ATTEND TO VICTIMS THAT THEY FOUND. THERE WOULD BE NOTIFIED THAT THERE WAAS VICTIM OVER AT THIS LOCATION, POLICE WERE ABLE TO STOP THE VEHICLE WHO HAD A VICTIM IN IT. THERE WAS MULTIPLE SCENES. IT WAS VERY COMPLEX. VERY CHAOTIC. >> HOW ARE OFFICERS, DISPCHATERS, TAKING THE CITY AFTER SUCH A WORRISOME NIGHT? >> IT IS SOMETHING YOU WISH NEVER HAPPENS. ALL OF US THINK OF THE FAMILIES. IF YOU THI ONKF IT BEING ON EASTER. LOSING AOV LED ONE. IT IS DIFFICULT. ATTH IS ON THE OFFICERS. WEAD H MULTIPLE SHOTS COMING IN FOOVERR 90 ROUNDS. THAT SPEAKS A LOT TO THOSE OFFICERS WHO WERE GOING INTO THAT INCIDENT, NOT KNOWING IF THEER WAS AN ACTIVE SHOOTER. NOT KNOWING WHO IS WHO. THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND, PEOPLE JUMPING IONT CARS, PULLING OUT OF CARS, A VERY CHAOTIC SITUATION. I CANNOT SPEAK ENOUGH WHAT THE OFFICER, OR OUR OFFICERS DID TO REGAIN CONTROL OF THE SCENE. GETTING THE PEOPLE THE HELP THAT THEY NEEDED AND GETTING THEM TO THE HOSPITALS THERE HELPING THEOS ON THE ENSCE. >> HAVING ANY SIX -- HAVE YOU HAD ANY SUCCESS? >> OUR COMPUTER CRISME IS WORKING DILIGENTLY ON OBTAINING ALL OF THE VIDEO THAT THEY CAN. WE ASK, WE KNOW THAT THERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE. WE ASK YOU TO COME FORWARD BECAUSE THESE ARE PEOEPL YOU ASSOCIATE WITH. IF YOU HAVE PICTURES, VIDEO, SEND IT TO THE LAKE SO THAT WE CAN USE IT. IT IS UPON ALL OF US TO WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE THESE SHOOTERS OFF OFHE T STREET. YOU HAVE GOT TO GET THE SHOOTERS OFF AT THE STREET. THE ONES WHO CONTINUE TO PRAY ON THE PUBLIC AND OUR COMMUNITIES NEED TO BE OFF OF THE STREET. I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT THE FBI, ATF, CALLED EARLY THIS MORNING. OFFERING ANY ASSISTANCE THAT THEY COULD. WE HAD ALLEGHENY COUNTY POLICE AND SHERIFFS REACHING OUT AS WELL. ASKING FORNY A HELP, ASKING IF WE NEEDED ANY HELP FROM THEM. I HAVE SAID THIS BEFORE. PEOPLE ALWAYS ASK WHERE ARE THESE GUNS COMING FROM? THAT IS ONE OFHE T THINGS MYSELF AND THE ATF LOCDKE ABOUT -- TALKED ABOUT LATE LAST SUMMER. WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUR THESE GUNS ARE COMING FROM, ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUTH. WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH THEM AND WE ARE HAVING A PRESS CONFERENCE LATER THIS WEEK ABOUT IT WITH THE ATF. FOCUSING ON JUVENESIL FOUND WITH A GUN, TRACING IT TO FIND OUT WHERE IT IS COMING FROM. IT HAS BEEN HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL FOR UONS THAT. IT IS THOSE PARTNERSHIPS, IT IS REALLY A FORCE MULTIPLIER THAT ALLOWS US TOO D MORE AND OUR OUTREACH GORDON NADERHE, WAS THERE LAST NIGHT. THE OUTREACH WORKERS ARE ALWAYS THERE TO HELP US OUT. REALLY WORKING AS HARD AS WE CAN. THIS IS NOT -- THIS IS ALL OF US. WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER IF WE WANT TO GET THESE SHOOTERS OFF AT THE STREET. YOU WANT TO GET THEM STRATEGICALLY AND PULL THEM OFF OF THE STREETS. THEOM CMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON, WE AREUT O THERE EACH AND EVERY DAY TO BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS BECAUSE WE KWNO THAT WHEN WE GET COOPERATION, WE A HIERGH PERCENTAGE. I THINK IT IS 85% OF BEING LEAB TO HOLD SOMEBODY TO JUSTICE FOR THAT CRIME. WE KNOW THAT PITTSBURGH IS A SPECIAL PLACE. WE KNOW THAT WE CAN COUNT ON ONE ANOTHER TO DO THAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? >> WHAT MESSAGE DO YOU HAVE FOR PARENTS? THESE EAR CHILDREN WITH WEAPONS. WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY TO THE PARENTS? OF THE JORDAN HOOPER AT THIS PARTY LAST NIGHT? >> THE TRAUMA, WE NEED TO DO WITH THAT. KNOWING WHERE YOUR KIDS ARE GOING, ONE OF THE VICTIMS WAS AS YOUNG AS 14. KNOWING WHERE THEY ARE GOI,NG WHAT THEY ARE DOING, AND SADLY THERE IS AOT L THAT CARRY GUNS TO USE THEM. WE HAVE GOT TO GET THEM OFF AT THE STREETS. --OFFERED THE STREETS. THERE ARE GSUN, PEOPLERE A FEARFUL BECSEAU OTHER PEOPLE ARE CARRYINGUN GS. FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS KNOW THAT THEY HAVE GUNS. THEY HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO HELPS A WELL AND GET THOSE GUNS OUT OF THE HANDS. -- THEIR HANDS. >> DO YOU KNOW THE TYPES OF GUNS THAT WERE USED? >> HANDGUNS AND A C1 ARE THINGS THAT LED YOU TO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE SHOOTERS? I CAN’T SPEAK TO THAT. WE'L’ LET THE EVIDENCE AND OUR DETECTIVES IN PROBABLY THE ATF HELP WORK ON THAT TO LINK IN THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE ON AT THE CRIME LAB TO WORK ON THOSE DOES ANYONE HAVE QUESTIONS FOR RACIST? LIQUOR STHOU FIRSTND A FOREMOST ON BEHALF OF MAYOR AT GAINEY HE WISHES HE COULD BE HERE TODAY, TBU HE IS STILL IN ISOLATION DUE AS RECENT COVID-19 EXPOSURE AND POSITIVE TEST. I’M HERE TODAY TO READ THE STATEMENT ON HIS BEHALF AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. FIRST AND FOREMOST ARE HEARTS AND OUR PRAYERS GOUT O TO THE VICTIM’S FAMILIES THEIR LOVED ONES AND OUR ENTIRE CITY TODAY. THANK YOU TO OUR FIRST RESPONDERS OUR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS AND TO ALL THE HOSPITAL AND EMS WORKERS WHO ARE PROVIDING THERI CTICAL CARE TO THE VICTIMS. WE ARE USING ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES TO FIND THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS INCIDENT. THKAN YOU TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE ALREADY COME FORWARD TO SHARE YOUR INFORMATION. AND IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING. PLEASE CALL THE POLICE OR USE THE ONLINE LINK TO GET US THE INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE. AT LEAST 10 GUNSHOT VICTIMS TWO LIVES STLO AND HUNDREDS OF LIVES ARE FOREVER CHANGED BECAUSE WE VEHA YET TO PASS MEANINGFUL LEGISLATION TO LESSEN THE AMOUNT OF GSUN IN OUR STREETS OR PROVIDE THEM MUCH NEEDED RESOURCES TO COMMUNITIES DESPERATELY IN NEED. THE TIME IS NOW FOR US TO MOVE WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY TO BRING JUSTICE TO THE VICTIMS AND PEACE TO OUR CITY. WE’VE BEEN WORKING ON OUR APPROACH TO GUN VIOLENCE IN OUR CITY OVER THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS AND NOW WE WILL BE CALLING A MEETING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY AND KEY COMMUNITY LEADERSO T INODTRUCE OUR ALL-IN CITYWIDE APPROACH TO PUBLIC SAFETY TO GET THREI FEEDBACK SO WCAE N BE SO WE CAN BEGIN TO BUILD A PATH FORWARD. IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE COME TOGETHER NOW TO HELP REDUCE THE VIOLENCE CURRENTLY HAPPENING. WELL, WE BEGIN TO DO THE LONG-TERM WORK OF ENDINGHE T CULTURE OF VIOLENCE THAT IS ENABLING THE SENSELESS LOSS OF LIFE THAT WARE E EXPERIENCING TODAY. WE MUST SAY NO MORE AND WE MUST SAY NEVER AGAIN. I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS MY SIENCER CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO’VE LOST TWO PEOPLE TODAY ANDLL AF O THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE PART OF THIS INCIDENT THAT WERE INJURED AND WENT TO THE HOSPITAL. BASICALLY. I JTUS WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE LINK MAKE SURE YOU USE THE LINK. I ALSO WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE HAVE HAD SOME GREAT COOPETIRAON WITH THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE PEOPLE COMING FORWARD. AW,AY WE’RE APPRECIATE THAT. BUT I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW THAT WE NEED MEOR INFORMATION. WE LOOK FORWARD TO MOVING FORWARD. THE DETECTIVES ARE UPSTAIRS COMBING THROUGH ALL OF THE EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE THUS FAR AND WE’RE WORKING DESPERATELY TO SOLVE ISTH CASE. SO, THANK YOU. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME? RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY M