On a Tuesday morning in June 2021, 24-year-old Robert Higginbotham was working with a landscaping crew in Penn Hills, a suburb of Pittsburgh. After finishing mowing a lawn on Mt. Carmel Road and returning to his truck, a man approached and opened fire. Witnesses reported hearing as many as nine rounds fired. Higginbotham was struck multiple times, tried to crawl out of the truck, and was found alive by first responders but succumbed to his injuries at the scene.

Investigators from the Allegheny County Police Homicide Unit gathered evidence including area video footage that reportedly showed the shooter, described as a Black male in a black hoodie and blue jeans, running toward a nearby cemetery. The victim left behind a fiancée, Oshnaysua Mosley, and children; his mother, Temillia Demery, publicly pleaded for justice.

In December 2021 authorities arrested 23-year-old Tracy Carpenter at a Plum residence and charged him with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and other offenses. A March 2022 preliminary hearing produced enough evidence for the case to proceed to trial, and prosecutors presented video footage of the shooting. Does anyone have information about Higginbotham, his work on Mt. Carmel Road, or the events that morning?