Jeremiah Lee Anger, a 25-year-old Black/African American male from Pittsburgh, died on June 6, 2024, after a shooting inside a residence in the Carrick neighborhood. The violence unfolded late that morning at a home on Wynoka Street near Brownsville Road, described by officials as a rental property with multiple private bedrooms and a common area. After being shot, Anger was still able to call 911 himself and report what had happened.
When police and medics arrived, they found him inside the home with gunshot wounds, including an injury to his chest, and he was taken in critical condition to UPMC Mercy, where he died a short time later.
Investigators quickly focused on Breanna Didolce, who was found at or near the property after the shooting. Court documents and police accounts said Didolce admitted she shot Anger twice after an argument. She told police that she and Anger had been in a relationship and shared a young child. According to the criminal complaint described in local reports, Didolce said Anger had threatened to throw her down the stairs, and she claimed he had been physically, verbally, or emotionally abusive toward her in the past. Authorities said she also admitted hiding the gun after the shooting; the firearm, which was reportedly registered in her name, was later found hidden under concrete or cinder blocks near the home.
Didolce was arrested the same day and initially charged with criminal homicide and tampering with evidence. Police said the case was handled by Pittsburgh detectives, including the Violent Crime Unit, after the mobile crime unit processed the scene. Early accounts described witnesses who heard a gunshot but did not necessarily see the shooting itself. Neighbors later said they did not realize the seriousness of what had happened until emergency vehicles and flashing lights filled the block.
The case later moved from the original homicide charge to a plea agreement. In August 2025, Didolce pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Anger's death. During the sentencing hearing, prosecutors said her initial statements to detectives did not fully match the evidence before she gave a later account that she feared she was in imminent danger. Her defense attorneys presented the shooting as arising from a volatile and abusive relationship, saying she had a history of mental health treatment connected to intimate partner violence and alleging prior abuse by Anger.
Anger's family rejected the idea that the sentence reflected the loss they suffered. Loved ones described him as someone who had been looking forward to raising his child, and one family member said his role as a brother and father had been taken away in seconds. Didolce apologized in court, saying she blamed herself every day for the death of her son's father and telling Anger's family that she had loved him too.
Didolce was sentenced to three to eight years in prison, followed by four years of probation.
