Antwon Rose Killing: Latest Developments On Teen Shot By Cop

PITTSBURGH, PA - Here are the latest developments in the death of Antwon Rose, the 17-year-old Woodland Hills High School student who was shot and killed by an East Pittsburgh police officer Tuesday while fleeing from a traffic stop:

• Funeral arrangements have been made for Rose. The viewing will occur June 24 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Tunnie Funeral Home, 211 East Eighth Avenue, Homestead, where a funeral service will be held June 25 at 11 a.m.

• The East Pittsburgh police officer who fired the shots that killed Rose still has not been identified. He has been placed on administrative leave. The officer reportedly had been sworn in as an East Pittsburgh officer an hour before the shooting.

• Police released the driver of the vehicle that they stopped because they believed it had been involved in an earlier shooting Tuesday. A third occupant of the vehicle, who was fleeing along with Rose when the shots were fired, remains at large.

• The Rose family has hired Philadelphia-based civil rights attorney S. Lee Merritt, who last year was named one of the online magazine the Root’s 100 Most Influential African-Americans ages 25 to 45. “Merritt is emerging as a new leader in the fight for racial justice, standing on the front lines of making sure people know that black lives matter,” the magazine wrote regarding the attorney.

• Rose was a volunteer at the Braddock Free Store 15104, according to Gisele Fetterman, the wife of John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s Democratic lieutenant governor nominee and the mayor of Braddock. Rose also appeared in a Fetterman campaign commercial.

Photo via Tunnie Funeral Home.

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