A graphic video that shows the moment a homicide suspect shot a Robinson motel manager at point-blank range pushed the District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday seek a gag order in the case against Stanley West.

Mr. West, 38, is accused of shooting and wounding a woman outside the Pittsburgh Motel on Steubenville Pike last week before walking up to Rakesh Ehagaban, the motel manager who’d stepped outside after hearing the commotion, and shooting him in the head.

The DA’s office wrote in a motion for the gag order that surveillance cameras at the hotel captured the shooting, and that footage is now circulating on Instagram “as well as traditional media outlets.”

If the “widespread dissemination” continues, prosecutors wrote, it “poses a risk of interfering with the rights of Mr. West to a

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