1 hurt in Pittsburgh gunfight with jitney driver

Source: Pittsburgh Post-GazetteOct.mini storage 22--A gunfight Monday afternoon between a jitney driver and one of his passengers on a residential street in the Hill District left the passenger in critical condition, police said.The shooting was reported at 3:30 p.m. at Wylie Avenue and Erin Street, a few dozen yards from what neighbors said is a jitney stand at the intersection.Police said the driver picked up three passengers: two men and a 4-year-old boy. As the car pulled away, the driver and one of the passengers, a 22-year-old man in the backseat who a police spokeswoman said is the boy's father, began to argue and the driver pulled over to let the passenger out. Police did not identify the driver or the passenger, and it was unclear what they argued about.Outside the car on Wylie, the driver and passenger pulled guns and began firing, police said.The passenger was shot and ran away, leaving the child and the other passenger in the car, a late-model silver Chevrolet Malibu that was struck several times by bullets. The wounded passenger threw his gun into the weeds and collapsed in a vacant lot in the 100 block of Trent Street. The boy was returned to his mother at UPMC Mercy, where his father was taken into surgery.The other passenger and jitney driver were taken to police headquarters for questioning. The driver has儲存a license to carry a gun and the gun was registered to him, police said.The gunfire erupted on a two-lane stretch of Wylie between a row of town homes, where mothers with children watched police investigate from their doorways, and the Legacy Apartments, which provides housing for seniors.Several neighbors declined to speak with a reporter about the shooting.Anyone with information is asked to call the Pittsburgh Police Bureau's homicide squad at 412-323-7161. Callers may remain anonymous.This is the latest incident of bloodshed involving jitneys, which are unregistered private taxis that people in the city's low-income neighborhoods underserved by public transportation often rely on to get around.In September, 92-year-old jitney driver Cornelius Swinton was shot multiple times in Homewood by gunmen targeting his passenger. In May, jitney driver John Haas, 59, was fatally shot in the head at a McKeesport housing complex after the shooter misidentified him as a rival gang member, police said.In April, two men in Wilkinsburg called a jitney and then killed the driver, Monica Proviano, 28, and stole her car.Robert Zullo: rzullo@post-gazette.com or 412-263-3909.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Visit the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at .post-gazette.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉