SOUTH SIDE SLOPES MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO FIRST-DEGREE MURDER

A South Side Slopes man pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder for the stabbing death last year of his estranged wife. 51 year old William Fitzgerald will be sentenced May 13 to a mandatory term of life in prison with no parole by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Elliot Howsie. Pittsburgh police were called to the 2100 block of Arlington Avenue on Jan. 5, 2023, by a man who found his daughter stabbed and unresponsive in her home. Officers found 47 year old Tarae Washington on the kitchen floor. She had been dead for some time. She had been stabbed 9 times, and her hands were shackled behind her back.