A late-night argument at a Duquesne bar ended in a fatal shooting for 54-year-old Donnell Demery. Shortly after midnight on August 13, 2018, police were called to the 1313 Bar on Kennedy Avenue; officers found Demery heavily bleeding. An officer applied a tourniquet, but Demery died about an hour later at UPMC McKeesport. A second person was injured in the same incident and left the scene before police arrived.

Investigators identified 27-year-old Carl Jones as the man who argued with and then shot Demery. An arrest warrant charged Jones with homicide and weapons violations; he was found and arrested in the Hill District on August 28, 2018 after hiding in a residence. At a bench trial in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, Jones was found guilty in October 2019 of third-degree murder and two firearms offenses and was sentenced in January of the following year. The 1313 Bar, described as a known trouble spot with prior disturbances and denied a liquor license renewal, was closed; a suspicious fire outside the bar was reported hours after the killing.

Did anyone have contact with Donnell around the bar that night or information about the other injured person who fled the scene?