On the late morning of February 26, 2020, a burst of gunfire on the 200 block of Taft Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Beltzhoover neighborhood left 33-year-old Robert Bennett Fulton III, a Black man, critically wounded by a gunshot to the chest. First responders took him to UPMC Mercy Hospital, where he was pronounced dead in the emergency room at 12:10 p.m. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office later ruled the death a homicide.

Pittsburgh Police Major Crimes detectives processed the hillside residential street and, using surveillance video from the area and fingerprints belonging to the victim, identified a suspect. On March 17, 2020, police arrested 31-year-old Daniel Miles and charged him with criminal homicide and carrying a firearm without a license. Miles was held in the Allegheny County Jail pending court proceedings; he later pleaded guilty and was sentenced. The motive for the shooting was not widely reported.

If anyone knew Robert Fulton, his movements that day, or has information about the shooting on Taft Avenue, please come forward.