The Pitt News The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | MArch 20, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 130
Kids strut for a cure: Police respond to armed PDM raises money for children’s hospital robbery at Hello Bistro Christian Snyder Contributing Editor The City of Pittsburgh Police Department responded to an armed robbery at Hello Bistro Sunday night, according to a Pitt crime alert sent out Monday afternoon. The crime alert from University of Pittsburgh Police said city police responded to the robbery at 11:11 p.m. The store closes at 10 p.m. and reopens at 10 a.m. every day. A suspect entered the store on Forbes Avenue and placed a gun to a worker’s head, demanding money. The suspect fled from the back of the building with an unknown amount of money. The salad and burger restaurant was open Monday afternoon and a manager referred questions to the corporate office. A corporate representative did not respond in time for publication. The suspect is a thin black male, about 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall and wearing all black with a mask, the alert says. Kevin Zwick, a University spokesperson, said they had no further information regarding the incident as of Monday night. Alicia George, a Pittsburgh Police spokesperson, said the city police also had no further update on the robbery as of Monday evening. The alert asks people with information to call Pitt police at 412-624-2121 and reference report # 18-01117 or call Pittsburgh police (Zone 4) at 412-4226520 and reference CCR #50928.
Mackenzie McGill, the representative from Alpha Delta Pi (left) poses with young model Shannon Witkouski and PDM sponsor Makayla Sheffer (right) during the third round of PDM’s Annual Fashion Show. Chiara Rigaud | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ily to go through a loved one in the hospital. artists from Ed Sheeran to Katy Perry. Madeline Gavatorta and “Th at was exhausting for my family. I In the fi rst round, which was sponKieran Mclean mean, yes, it was hard for me, but it’s even sored by JCPenney — who gave the kids The Pitt News Staff harder for the people around you,” Irwin the chance to choose outfi ts outside of store Twelve children, ages 4 to 17, modeled said. hours — kids walked down the runway with personally selected JCPenney outfits in the His experience helped him understand Soldiers and Sailors auditorium Monday a PDM sponsor. For the second round, the what the children were going through — kids walked with sponsors from the top 11 night on a runway of bright white Christone reason why he came back to host PDM’s fundraising teams. In the third, they walked mas lights. They were the main event at Pitt fashion show. with both sponsors, dressed as what they Dance Marathon’s fashion show. “If you are gonna spotlight anybody, PDM’s Annual Fashion Show, is in its want to be as adults. why not spotlight the kids that have gone Jesse Irwin, who graduated from Pitt in third year and raised $3,034 — compared through that kind of adversity? Even if it’s a December 2017, hosted the night and said to $2,502 in 2017 and $2,995 the year besibling, I mean think about what that’s like he understood the event on a personal level. fore — from ticket sales to raise money for as a young kid to have your older or younger Irwin said he was hospitalized for three to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. There sibling be in the hospital,” Irwin said. four months during his fi rst year of college were three rounds for the kids part of the Victoria Bianco, executive board memaft er his stomach started hurting. He was Children’s Miracle Network at the hospital ber of the Pitt Alumni Dance Council, dethen diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and or who are siblings of Miracle Children — said he knows what a burden it is for a famSee PDM on page 3 all of which had them walking or dancing to