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On a Thursday afternoon in August 2021, 30-year-old Terrence L. Coates was fatally shot in downtown Pittsburgh after a dispute over a woman. The shooting occurred around 1 p.m. in an alley near Fort Duquesne Boulevard between Sixth and Seventh streets. Coates was struck multiple times in the chest, taken to UPMC Mercy in critical condition, and died about an hour later.

Police say the incident began with a verbal altercation between Taylor Wible, 21, and Coates after Coates allegedly called 18-year-old Ela Aydin a rat. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Wible follow Coates into the alley, take a shooter’s stance, and fire. Wible later told police he knew Coates was unarmed. Wible and Aydin left the scene in a blue BMW; police stopped the car on the South Side after flagging the plate and took both into custody.

Wible was charged with criminal homicide and a firearm violation; he was reportedly prohibited from carrying a gun because of a 2019 aggravated assault plea. Aydin was charged with hindering apprehension. Does anyone have additional details or witnessed the events near Fort Duquesne Boulevard that afternoon?