On the morning of December 31, 2021, Nandi Fitzgerald, 28, was found shot and killed inside her Homewood South residence in Pittsburgh. Two other people were also discovered dead at the scene: her 12-year-old son, Denzel Buddy Nowlin Jr., and a 28-year-old friend, Tatiana Tay Hill. The family had already been mourning the accidental drowning of Nandi’s 6-year-old son in June 2021, and the triple slaying left two young children without their mother and older brother.

Investigators quickly identified a suspect, 32-year-old Ronald Steave, the father of one of Nandi’s children. Police tied him to the scene with camera footage of his car near the home, gunshot residue and blood found on his vehicle, and shell casings that matched ammunition located in his car and home. An arrest warrant was issued in January 2022 and he was taken into custody in March 2022. Prosecutors said the killings began in the foyer and continued upstairs; the defense advanced an alternative theory that the deaths were the result of Nandi killing others and then herself, but that theory was dismissed for lack of corroboration.

Did anyone in the Homewood South area see or hear anything in the early hours of December 31, 2021 that could help clarify what happened?