The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office Wednesday identified the man authorities found dead last weekend on a Wilkinsburg sidewalk as Dorrel Ferguson, 19.
Police were dispatched at 8:25 p.m. Saturday to the 1000 block of Ross Avenue, where the unidentified man, later identified as Ferguson, was found dead on the sidewalk, county police said.
Ferguson, who lived in Wilkinsburg, had suffered a single gunshot to his upper torso, county police said.
Homicide detectives are investigating.
A county police spokesman Wednesday declined to make additional comment.
The family is holding funeral services from 5 to 8 p.m. Jan. 21 at Coston Funeral Homes in Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood, according to obituary information posted online. A service will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 22 at Kings of Kings Baptist Ministries in Garfield, the obituary said.
No additional details about Ferguson were available Wednesday.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Allegheny County Police Tip Line 1-833-ALL-TIPS, or 1-833-255-8477.
