In the early morning hours of a cold February day in Pittsburgh, the sound of gunshots pierced the quiet of the Larimer neighborhood. When police arrived at the intersection of Enterprise Street and Tangent Way around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 23, 2013, they discovered the unresponsive body of 26-year-old Brian Wright of Homewood. He had been fatally shot, marking a tragic and violent end to a young life.
The death of Brian Wright, a male with a daughter, was not an isolated
tragedy for his family, but a devastating echo of a recent loss. Just weeks earlier, on February 4, 2013, his 32-year-old brother, Maurice Bruce, had also been found shot to death in the nearby Homewood neighborhood. Bruce's body was discovered in some bushes near Hamilton Avenue and Sterrett Street. The close proximity in both time and location of the two brothers' murders immediately led investigators to consider a possible connection between the killings.
In the wake of these two brutal slayings, the family was left grappling with unimaginable grief and a desperate search for answers. Their father, the Reverend Brian Wright, spoke of his devastation, leaning on his faith to cope with the loss of two of his sons in such a short and violent span. He described both Brian and Maurice as 'good boys' and expressed his confusion over why they would be targeted. The family pleaded with the public for any information that could lead to the perpetrators, as they prepared to hold a candlelight vigil to honor the lives of the two brothers.
Despite the family's pleas and the ongoing police investigation, the initial reports in 2013 indicated that no motive had been established and no suspects had been identified in either of the homicides. Authorities appealed to the public for assistance, asking anyone with information to contact the Pittsburgh Homicide Squad. As of the available online sources, the murders of Brian Wright and his brother Maurice Bruce remain unsolved, with no arrests having been made in connection to their deaths.
