Joseph Mitchell was 39 when he was shot on June 26, 2022, while riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle crossing the 16th Street Bridge in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead; the driver was critically injured but survived.

Police say the confrontation began at Art’s Tavern on Penn Avenue, where Mitchell and another man got into a fight with Jeffdyn Rushton and others. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Rushton following the victims’ car onto the bridge and shooting at it. Rushton, 33, of the Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood, was arrested about a month later and charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and related counts; the complaint alleges he possessed a firearm despite a prior conviction that barred him from having one.

Mitchell’s family described him as kind and caring; he was working for Stanley Steemer at the time of his death. Does anyone have information about the events at Art’s Tavern that night or the moments on the bridge?