An arrest has been made in the murder of a local father who was shot and killed while riding his bike this past summer.
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“God just, he worked it out,” said Janice Austin of Clairton.
This was the moment Austin had been praying for.
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“He said, ‘They got him’ and all I could do was just, I cried,” Austin said. “I cried and I said, ‘God, I thank you,’ My prayer was answered.”
Several months after the senseless shooting of her nephew, Dashawn Rankin, 33, an arrest has been made in his murder.
Medford Taylor, 56, was caught in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday after police said surveillance video linked him to the crime.
On June 25, the criminal complaint said Taylor was walking down Federal Street on the city’s North Side as Rankin rode past him on his bike.
The pair had a brief exchange of words. Then, as Rankin rode off, the complaint said Taylor followed him, pulled out a gun and shot him once in broad daylight.