Clinton Jamar Miller, a 40-year-old Black man from Pittsburgh, was killed in the early morning hours of July 22, 2020, after gunfire erupted on the 80 block of Knox Avenue in the Knoxville neighborhood. Police were called shortly after 1 a.m.; officers found Miller suffering gunshot wounds to the stomach or torso and he was taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 3 a.m. The emergency call on a residential street quickly became a homicide investigation.

Investigators focused on Montez Freeman, who was connected to a dispute with Miller over a car. Witnesses described an earlier confrontation in which Freeman allegedly fired at Miller and missed, and then returned days later when the dispute resumed and Miller was fatally shot on Knox Avenue. Police obtained an arrest warrant for Freeman on July 23, 2020; he later turned himself in and was charged with criminal homicide and weapons offenses.

At trial, prosecutors relied in part on a recorded interview of Miller’s girlfriend, Tasha Lomax, because she testified that she did not remember much of what happened or what she had told detectives. Freeman was convicted of third-degree murder and related aggravated assault charges and received lengthy consecutive prison terms. Does anyone have information about that night on Knox Avenue or about Miller’s movements in Knoxville before the shooting?