A Homewood man who had been labeled a person of interest officially became a suspect Wednesday in the death of Andre Gray, whose body was found last month after he went missing from his Lawrenceville home in October.
Pittsburgh police said the charges against Hubert Wingate, 30, include criminal homicide, arson, theft, receiving stolen property, tampering with or fabricating evidence, abuse of corpse and a firearms violation.
According to the criminal complaint, police were able to track down Wingate, after he logged on to the PlayStation network using Gray’s game system, with Wingate’s own email address. The same PlayStation was used again later with a different account name.
Police used the IP addresses to track down where the game system was being used, one of them being Wingate’s mother’s house.
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The complaint says police found a witness who told them Wingate and another person showed up to the first witnesses’ house, saying he had Gray’s body wrapped up and bound in the trunk of the car. They then allegedly dragged the body to the river, where they tried to figure out a way to make it sink. The suspects fired two-three shots into it, and stabbed it multiple times before dragging it into the water.
The autopsy determined that Gray, 34, died from a gunshot wound. There is no estimate for how long his body was in the river.
