Ex-Pitt Player Starts Reward Fund To Find Son's Killer

Pittsburgh PA

04 March, 2022

3:09 PM

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PITTSBURGH, PA — A former University of Pittsburgh linebacker is seeking money to track down the killer of his son and a woman in Homestead last week. A minor also was injured in the incident, but is expected to survive. Jason Chavis, a Pitt linebacker in 1994 and current sales director of WJAC-TV in Johnstown, wants to establish a reward to find out who gunned down his son, Jason Chavis, 25, a former McKeesport High School and Seton Hill university football player. "My son was viciously shot in the head," Chavis wrote on the GoFundMe page established to raise money. "The assailants that did it still walk the streets of our communities, still free to potentially kill again." Chavis was shot and killed last week along with Amari Mitchell, as they sat in a car in Homestead along with the juvenile. He was a semester short of obtaining a bachelor's degree in communications. The elder Chavis, general sales manager of WJAC-TV in Johnstown, is seeking $20,000 in the GoFundMe effort. He would allocate $15,000 of that amount for a reward leading to the arrest of his son's killer or killers. He also would spend $5,000 on a billboard campaign to advance that effort. 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.