Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | By Moriah Balingit
Conekia "Coco" Finney was looking for a new start when she moved into a shingle-sided apartment building on Merchant Street in Ambridge two days ago.
But that apartment -- at its threshold -- is where the pregnant 19-year-old met her end Sunday evening when she was shot at her doorstep in the small Beaver County community's first homicide of the year. The child would have been the second for her and boyfriend Steven Murray.
Patrolman Timothy Depenhart, who was the first on the scene and saw the young woman shot in the chest, said Ms. Finney was planning to meet her mother, Elaine Finney, who was picking her up from the apartment she shared with Mr. Murray.
When she opened the door, at around 8:25 p.m., she was met by two men in dark clothing with hoods concealing their faces. Wordlessly, one of the men pulled out a gun and shot her at point-blank range in the left side of her chest, leaving her and her unborn daughter to die on the porch. People told police that they heard no words exchanged, just the sound of the door opening and then the single gunshot.
The men then ran away, disappearing into nearby back roads, he said. Police had not determined if they had a car.
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