Joseph A. Olinger

Death by Force

On July 21, 1980, Joseph A. Olinger, a 71-year-old male, was shot and killed during a sudden sniper-style attack on Ridge Avenue in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. He was among neighbors spending a warm evening outside when a gunman opened fire from an upper floor of a nearby home. Contemporary reports identified the other people fatally shot as Dorothy Louise “Birdy” Glaser, a 59-year-old female; Lois M. Kennedy Sima, a 57-year-old female; and Andrew Price, a 25-year-old male. A fifth neighbor wa ...Read More