Father, son charged in North Side shootings that sent 2 to hospital

Pittsburgh police have arrested a father and son in connection with Thursday night shootings that injured two people in the city’s North Side.

Kurt Ianuzzo, 51, and Jake Ianuzzo, 22, both of the North Side, are both charged with three counts each of attempted homicide and aggravated assault as well as firing a gun into an occupied structure.

Police filed an additional weapons charge against Kurt Ianuzzo.

Officers responded to multiple Shotspotter alerts about 10:40 p.m. Thursday in the 1000 block of Woods Run Avenue.

They found a male victim with a gunshot wound to his back in a home in the 900 block of Woods Run.

The victim, who was taken by ambulance to Allegheny General Hospital in critical condition, told police he was shot in the back while watching television in his bedroom, according to court documents.

A second victim, who was shot in the ankle, was found sitting in a tow truck at Woods Run and Maridale Avenue. They also were taken to the hospital, but they were listed in stable condition, police said.

The second victim and the Ianuzzos are tow truck drivers, the victim told investigators. The victim and a sibling confronted the Ianuzzos at the father and son’s Woods Run home after the Ianuzzos arrived first at the scene of an earlier wreck on Route 65 at the McKees Rocks Bridge and an argument ensued, according to court papers.

The victim told police the Ianuzzos went inside their house and each returned with a gun and began shooting at the victim, who noticed the ankle wound while driving away.

Court documents indicate Kurt Ianuzzo told police that he returned fire after the victim and sibling allegedly shot first and that “his son had nothing to do with it.”

Police said surveillance video shows the Ianuzzos emerging from their house with Kurt carrying two firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun, and Jake carrying an assault rifle.

The victim and sibling, who did not appear to be armed, were “approximately four houses down the street and Jake and Kurt began to fire in their direction,” according to court documents.

The Ianuzzos were firing in the direction of the home where the man watching television was struck, police said.

Video footage shows that “Jake and Kurt then run onto the front porch and continue to shoot in a reckless manner down Woods Run Avenue,” court papers state.

Both suspects were placed in the Allegheny County Jail, where they are awaiting preliminary hearings.