Pittsburgh Mother Asks For Help In Finding Son's Hayride Killer

Pittsburgh PA

01 October, 2021

2:32 PM

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PITTSBURGH, PA — Three weeks to the day after her 15-year-old son was gunned down at a North Versailles Halloween hayride, Shantel Pizaro detailed her despair over the fact that the killer remains at large. "I can't even start my healing process when the person who did this to my son is walking freely," Pizaro said Friday. "No consequences, nothing. It's a lot of confusion, hurt. It's unbearable." Pizaro faced reporters Friday outside of Allegheny County Police headquarters in Green Tree, asking for any information that might lead law enforcement to the person who shot Steven Eason to death at the Haunted Hills Hayride on Sept. 10. Eason, of Wilmerding, was shot in the chest and stomach after attempting to intervene in a dispute at the hayride between an acquaintance and another teen who shot them both. Eason died from his wounds; the other teen, a Penn Hills High School student, was shot in the shoulder but survived. County police have not yet identified a suspect. The shooter has been described by witnesses as a black teenager between the ages of 15 and 17 with short hair, between 5 feet, 9 inches and 6 feet tall and wearing dark blue cargo shorts and a black backpack. Pizaro said that the person who killed her son, who was a Central Catholic High School student, doesn't deserve to remain free and asked the shooter to come forward. "Something like this has to be eating you alive," she said. "No one who has a heart can do something like this and not have it play in the back of their mind. You hurt a lot of people. It's not right. It's not OK." Be the first to know what's happening in your community and region. With a free Patch subscription, you'll always be up to date on local and state news: https://patch.com/subscribe.