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Dersean Alberty-Brown

Case from Pittsburgh, PA dated Aug 19, 2015

Victim Details

Dersean Alberty-Brown

Male

Black / African American

Pittsburgh

PA

2015-08-19

22

Dersean

Alberty-Brown

08/03/2026

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On a summer evening in Pittsburgh's East Hills neighborhood, the life of 22-year-old Dersean Alberty-Brown, a Black/African American male, was cut short by gunfire. On August 19, 2015, Alberty-Brown, a former high school football star from Sharpsville, accompanied three other men to a house on Fahnestock Street with the intention of buying marijuana. The sellers were two men named Deshawn Hall and Raymon Harris.

What began as a supposed drug deal quickly devolved into a violent robbery. I ...
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