By The Tribune-ReviewTuesday, January 6, 2009
Security cameras to be installed at The Waterfront development in Homestead will be funded by a federal Department of Homeland Security grant, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Monday.
Zappala said cameras that can recognize faces and license plates will be installed at the entrances and exits to The Waterfront. Zappala said he hopes the cameras will deter crime there.
The popular development had a spate of shootings and robberies in the summer.
In July, an armed robber killed West Mifflin teenager Brian K. Lee as he tried to keep the gunman out of Damon's restaurant in The Waterfront. Two weeks before that, a Homewood man was fatally shot outside the nearby Eat 'n Park restaurant. Fuddruckers and the Rock Bottom Brewery had been held up at gunpoint in previous months.
