A Uniontown man was convicted of first-degree murder on Thursday for a 2017 fatal shooting in a Hill District housing community.
Tevin Patterson, 27, will be sentenced by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski on Oct. 7.
First-degree murder carries a mandatory life prison term in Pennsylvania.
According to the criminal complaint, Patterson killed Calvin Turner on Aug. 8, 2017, inside Terrace Village, a housing complex on Oak Hill Drive.
A private security guard working there at the time of the shooting said that shortly after he heard three gunshots, he saw a suspicious man wearing only one shoe.
The security guard approached the man and spoke with him, before he took off running.
A short time later, the complaint said, officers from Pittsburgh’s Zone 2 found the same man in a wooded area nearby. When he was taken into custody, police said, Patterson was not wearing any shoes and did not have a shirt on.
However, officers said they found a hoodie with blood spatter, as well as an orange-red and black Nike shoe in the woods he had just left.
That shoe, police said, matched another found at the shooting scene.
Patterson was found guilty following a three-day jury trial. The panel deliberated about three hours before returning its verdict.
