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Man shot, woman wounded in Homewood alley
Wednesday, August 25, 1999 By Torsten Ove, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
City homicide detectives who are investigating an early-morning slaying in a Homewood alley yesterday probably won't know what happened until they interview a woman who was wounded in the face during the incident.
James Jackson, 50, who police said had a history of drug arrests, was found slumped in the passenger seat of a van at 4 a.m. in the 7300 block of Forest Way, a narrow alley that runs behind Frankstown Avenue. He had been shot once in the side of the head.
A Rankin woman, who owned the van and was probably driving earlier, was found in a back seat with a facial wound. Police weren't sure if the wound was caused by a bullet fragment or some other object. She was undergoing surgery yesterday at UPMC Presbyterian, where she was in critical condition.
Police have declined to identify her until they have a chance to talk to her today.
Sgt. Keith Andrews, head of the homicide squad, said detectives don't have a motive or suspect, nor were they certain of the relationship between the woman and Jackson.
Neighbors reported having seen the two together Monday night near the van, which was parked in a small lot near a repair shop. People in the area said they had heard shots at about 10 p.m., but witnesses said they had seen Jackson and the woman together again at midnight, walking around.
At about 4 a.m., a woman walking in the area saw the van in the middle of the alley and, thinking there had been an accident, called 911.
Detectives said the van apparently had drifted into the alley from the parking lot after the shooting.
Crime Unit officers were able to identify Jackson through fingerprints taken at the time of an arrest in 1968, when he was 19. Andrews said Jackson was most recently arrested in 1997.
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