A jury found a man guilty of first-degree murder for killing an 18-year-old boy in Pittsburgh’s Strip District in 2021.
Howard Hawkins was also found guilty of carrying a firearm without a license. He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole for the death of Ahmir Tuli. The North Hills High School alumnus was shot outside of his mother’s restaurant, Preeti’s Pitt, in the Strip District on Feb. 21, 2021.
“There was a sense of relief, obviously,” One of Tuli’s friends said on Monday. “There was a sense of hope, strength. A lot of us feel like it was a sigh, that we could finally breathe.”…