A Pittsburgh man is facing 16 criminal charges after police say he followed a 13-year-old girl off a bus near the Greenfield Tunnel and raped her, according to court documents described by investigators. The alleged attack happened in mid-October, though the year was not specified in the police account. As of the most recent report, the accused man had not been taken into custody.
According to WPXI, the complaint states the suspect “started following her after she got off a bus by the Greenfield Tunnel.” Investigators say the man left the girl a phone number, and detectives later used that number to identify Quinlan Burke as a suspect in the case.
How Police Say They Identified the Suspect
The station's report notes that the victim was later shown a photo array containing eight men and picked out Burke from the lineup. That identification, paired with the phone number lead, became central to the case police built against him. Per the same account, Burke now faces 16 charges, including rape, statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor and multiple counts of indecent assault.
Despite the charges, the station reported that online court records showed Burke had not yet been taken into custody at the time of publication. The article does not say whether that status has since changed, and no additional court filings were available to clarify his current status.
A Separate, Unrelated Pittsburgh Case
This case is distinct from another one reported by WPXI involving a 17-year-old girl who filed a report near a Homewood bus station, which remains under investigation by the Special Victims Unit. The two incidents are not connected, but both point to a recurring concern among Pittsburgh parents and commuters about safety for young riders near bus stops across the city.
Citywide data gives some sense of the broader landscape, even if it doesn't speak to current conditions. An October 2015 report from Allegheny County Analytics found that Pittsburgh police received 95 rape reports in 2014, a rate of 30 per 100,000 residents, and that the rate had fallen 16 percent from 2005 through 2014. The same report flagged Homewood, the Hill District and the North Side as neighborhoods with particularly high rape rates. None of that data reflects current trends in the city.
What Happens Next
No additional details about a court date, bail status, or Burke's legal representation were included in the available reporting. The case remains active, and the station's report did not indicate when further updates might be expected.
