🌱 Edgewood stabbing survivor leaves hospital as community begins to heal
Edgewood, Pennsylvania Patch AM: a 3 min readWhat's up Edgewood! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Edgewood stabbing survivor leaves hospital as community begins to heal
- How a suspected rapist ended up inside an Edgewood family’s home
Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Partly sunny and less humid, with a high of 69 and low of 54 degrees.
- Sunday: Sunshine and a few clouds, temps: high: 70, low: 50.
- Monday: Partly sunny, with a high of 63 and low of 41 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Morning Roundup: Wife of UPMC doctor that was killed in Edgewood stabbing is released from the hospital (triblive.com) — The surviving wife in last week’s brutal Edgewood home invasion, in which UPMC physician Dr. Idris Evans was killed, has now been released from the hospital, offering a small relief to a shaken neighborhood. Police say the couple’s children escaped unharmed, while separate reports detail threats that canceled a Lawrenceville bar event and an electrical fire that displaced Penn Hills residents. 
• Pennsylvania Man Accused of Killing Pediatrician Allegedly Raped Woman Just Hours Earlier (lawenforcementtoday.com) — A deadly home invasion in an Edgewood residence left UPMC Children’s Hospital physician Dr. Idris Evans dead and his wife critically injured, and now police say the suspect is also charged in a separate rape hours earlier. Investigators describe a chaotic attack as the couple slept, with their children fleeing to safety, and are still probing whether the crime was random.
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-- The Patch AM Team
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