PITTSBURGH, PA — City officials are looking to expand a deer hunting program to include three additional parks after a pilot program last year in Frick and Riverview parks proved successful.

City council on Tuesday is expected to approve a $98,000 contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help oversee this year’s deer management program. Schenley, Highland and Emerald View parks would be part of this year’s deer culling effort.

The city in 2023 launched an archery pilot program to reduce an overabundance of deer living in city parks. Officials asserted that there is an insufficient food supply for the existing number of deer and that the animals have limited vegetation’s ability to root and regenerate in city parks.

Officials also contend that with no natural predators, the city has seen an increase in deer-vehicle collisions and unnatural deer aggression toward pets and people.

According to a city report on the pilot program, which ran from September through January, 108 deer were harvested by 30 archers in Riverview and Frick parks. Fifty-nine deer were donated to local food banks and produced nearly 10,000 meals.

Shootings in Akron, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, left a total of three people dead and dozens injured Sunday, and as of this writing, no arrests had been reported in either case. Police in both cities were asking the public to call in with any information they have. In Pittsburgh, witnesses say an argument at Ballers Hookah Lounge and Cigar Bar ended in gunfire that left a man and a woman dead and seven others hurt, one of them critically. Police believe at least two people fired guns, WPXI reports. Relatives of a man who worked in the establishment told the station they hadn’t heard from him since the shooting, but the victims had not yet been publicly identified.

In Akron, the mayor and the police chief released a joint statement vowing to bring the perpetrator or perpetrators to justice, and asking the public to report anything they know—anonymously if they so choose, the Akron Beacon Journal reports. Witnesses tell the newspaper they were enjoying a birthday party at a home on the city’s east side when, not long after midnight and about 30 minutes after police told partygoers to wrap things up, gunfire broke out at what had previously been a peaceful event. “Nobody was fighting. There was no drama,” says one attendee. One witness says people in a car started shooting, and partygoers returned fire. A 27-year-old man was killed and two dozen others injured, CNN reports. (More shooting stories.)