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Indian-Origin Motel Manager Shot Dead in Pittsburgh While Trying to Intervene in Dispute

Rakesh Ehagaban was fatally shot after intervening in a motel dispute; suspect Stanley Eugene West faces multiple charges including criminal homicide.

  • On Friday, emergency services responded after Rakesh Ehagaban, 51-year-old manager of the Pittsburgh Motel in Robinson Township, was shot dead on the 4200 block of Steubenville Pike.
  • The suspect had been staying at the motel for about two weeks with a woman and a child, and police allege West shot the woman in the neck while she sat in a black sedan with the child inside.
  • According to the criminal complaint, motel surveillance cameras captured Ehagaban approaching West in the motel parking lot and asking `Are you okay, bud?` before West shot him in the head.
  • Police tracked the U-Haul van with licence plate readers and located West in the East Hills neighborhood, Pittsburgh, where a shootout injured a Pittsburgh detective and West was hospitalized facing criminal homicide and attempted homicide charges.
  • These back-to-back incidents have prompted concern among advocates, as the Pennsylvania State Police lead an independent probe reviewing CCTV while police say there is no identified motive.
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India Today broke the news in India on Sunday, October 5, 2025.
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