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Kenneth A. Wilson, 56, was shot and killed on the evening of August 23, 2020, on the 100 block of Penfort Street in the Northview Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Police found him with a gunshot wound to the head; emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

Security camera footage showed three men emerging from a wooded area and approaching Wilson as he walked. One ran up and shot him at close range; as Wilson fell the other two fired multiple additional shots before the men fled back into the woods. Investigators later identified 19-year-old Maurice White Jr., 19-year-old Taelaun Claybourne, and 18-year-old Lamearion Howard as suspects. A witness said she drove the three to the area and that they exited the vehicle armed.

Homicide charges were filed against all three on December 2, 2020. Maurice White Jr. was arrested December 22, 2020, in Wilkinsburg; Lamearion Howard was also taken into custody. Taelaun Claybourne remained a fugitive until his July 2022 arrest in Plum on an unrelated non-fatal shooting charge.

Did anyone in Northview Heights see or hear anything the night of August 23, 2020, that could shed more light on this ambush?