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Shots fired outside end scuffle in the Original Hot Dog Shop

Several bullets penetrated the Original Hot Dog Shop’s Bouquet Street-side windows from… Several bullets penetrated the Original Hot Dog Shop’s Bouquet Street-side windows from outside early on morning of June 10, while a security officer inside worked to end a fight involving about a dozen people.

Although there were about 30 people in the restaurant when the fight and the shots occurred, nobody was injured, according to evening manager Joanne Keys and the city police.

Police responded to a call from the Oakland restaurant at about 2:50 a.m. Officers arrested two people for disorderly conduct in relation to the fight, but police have not yet identified the shooter, said city police spokesperson Tammy Ewin.

Ewin added that the security officer reported hearing five shots, though she did not know what type of gun was used.

Keys, who was working when the altercation occurred, estimated that most of the people involved in the fight were “young,” in their late teens or early twenties.

“It’s summertime,” she said, explaining that the managers of the restaurant will develop more precautions to control problems in the summer.

Keys said that she had seen the people involved in the fight hanging around the restaurant in the past, but she would not describe them as “regulars.”

The Original Hot Dog Shop employs an off-duty city police officer seven nights a week, for extra security.

A 24-year-old Wilkinsburg man, Robert Beeman, was shot and killed outside The O in October 2001. According to a witness, Beeman was involved in an argument outside the restaurant shortly before he was shot. At the time of the 2001 shooting, Sid Simon, the owner of The O, pointed out that the altercation had occurred outside the restaurant.

On Thursday morning, as in 2001, the shots were fired from outside The O.

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