Tia Pittman was 38 when she and her partner, 38-year-old Stanley Peck, were shot outside their duplex on West Walnut Street in Tampa on the morning of October 31, 2019. The couple had recently moved from Michigan to care for Stanley’s father and were parents to a two-year-old son and a newborn daughter born three weeks earlier. A neighbor described them as a nice, quiet, humble couple.

According to testimony, shortly after 7 a.m. Stanley pushed Tia back into the house after a loud noise; Tia cried out that they were being robbed as a man raised a gun and began shooting. Stanley died at the scene; Tia was taken to a hospital and later died. Their two young children were inside the home during the attack. Witnesses reported seeing a man speed away on a bicycle.

Police arrested 26-year-old Tyrail Raheem Kendrick on November 8, 2019, charging him with two counts of first-degree murder, armed robbery, and felon in possession of a firearm. At trial, eyewitnesses including Stanley’s sister identified Kendrick as the shooter; the defense pointed to no physical or DNA evidence tying him to the crime and argued he was targeted because he was a Black man on a bicycle. Kendrick was convicted and sentenced.

Did anyone in the Tampa area know Tia and Stanley or see a bicycle leaving that morning?