Woman shot to death for declining a man’s advances at a local bar

A Pittsburgh mother of two was shot and killed on
Friday (Jan. 22) after declining a man’s advances at a
local bar. Janese Talton-Jackson, 29, was found lying
in the street on North Lang Avenue at approximately
2 a.m., after a shooting was reported in the
Homewood area.

The assailant, 41-year-old Charles McKinney, was
later taken into police custody after a brief chase.

According to reports, Talton-Jackson was approached
by McKinney at Cliff’s Bar, where she declined to
speak with him. McKinney then followed her as she
left the bar, and shot her in the chest. As authorities
arrived on the scene, McKinney was the subject of a
traffic stop when he heard an officer’s radio
announce a nearby shooting.



 He sped off, and police
chased him and fired shots after him. He was
captured after crashing into a parked vehicle, taken
to a hospital to treat his wounds, and charged
thereafter.

McKinney faces charges of homicide, two counts of
aggravated assault, firearms without a license,
fleeing or attempting to elude police, two counts of
possession with intent to deliver, two counts of
recklessly endangering another person and reckless
driving, WTAE reports.

“I just think it’s sad. Somebody has to do something
about the gun control, it’s just getting out of hand
and it just [isn’t] safe to walk the streets no more,”
one man told CBS Pittsburgh