John Weiss, an 18-year-old male from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, died on February 22, 1981, after he was shot during what authorities described as a break-in at the home of Dr. John Wahrenberger, a Pittsburgh dentist. Weiss was not a stranger to Wahrenberger; he had reportedly been a patient of the dentist since childhood. What began as an alleged burglary became a fatal shooting that later drew public attention because it tested Pennsylvania�s then-new �deadly force� law.
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