A jury next week will begin deliberating the fate of a man accused in the 2021 shooting death of a North Hills honors student outside his family’s Strip District restaurant.
Closing arguments took place Friday after a weeklong retrial of Howard Hawkins, who is accused of killing Ahmir Tuli, 18, on Feb. 21, 2021, outside of Preeti’s Pitt in the 2700 block of Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh. He is charged with criminal homicide.
Police said Hawkins, 50, of Pittsburgh, shot Tuli once in the head. Tuli, a line cook, was on break when police said Hawkins approached him and fired the fatal shot…