On July 21, 1980, Andrew Price, a male age 25, was fatally shot during a sniper-style shooting spree on a residential street in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Contemporary reports list multiple victims struck outside their homes on a warm summer evening; Price was among four people killed as shots were fired from an elevated position in a nearby house. Other victims killed were Dorothy Louise “Birdy” Glaser Joseph Andrew Olinger and Lois M. Kennedy Sima. Joseph Sima survived with a gunshot wound to his arm.
Police identified the shooter as Victor Belmonte Jr., then 23 years old, who had been firing a rifle from the attic window of his father’s home. After the shootings, Belmonte drove to a Pennsylvania State Police barracks and surrendered. He was arraigned the next day on four counts of criminal homicide, along with related charges for the wounding of Joseph Sima. Price is specifically named among the deceased in these reports.
At trial in 1981–1982, prosecutors presented a recorded statement in which Belmonte described believing that an “enemy” was coming after him; the defense pursued an insanity argument referencing a psychiatric break. A Pennsylvania appellate decision recounts that a jury ultimately convicted Belmonte of four counts of third-degree murder for the killings committed from the Coraopolis attic window, with the court summarizing that he had “ran amok and shot five of his neighbors,” four fatally. In November 1982, he was sentenced to a prison term of 20 to 40 years; the judgment was later affirmed on appeal. Price is part of the victim set in these proceedings.
Subsequent memorial and archival listings corroborate Andrew Price’s death on July 21, 1980, in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, alongside the other named victims. These references do not add ethnic identification for Price.
