PITTSBURGH —

Jurors heard the closing argument on Friday in the trial of Howard Hawkins .

This is the second time Hawkins has been tried on homicide charges in the death of 18-year-old Ahmir Tuli. The first trial ended in a mistrial last year. Advertisement

Tuli was shot and killed in February 2021 outside his family’s Strip District restaurant, Preeti’s Pitt.

In closing arguments, both sides focused on the shooter’s identity. The district attorney’s office argued that the shooter, captured in blurry surveillance video, couldn’t have been anyone else but Hawkins, while Hawkins’ defense attorney said it was not him, and they accused the wrong person.

In that video played for the jurors in court, a man is seen leaving the Penn Avenue restaurant. He walks to a car parked on the stree

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