On a late afternoon in March 2018, 24-year-old Hasan Ishmae Abdul-Rabb was found fatally shot and lying in the street in Pittsburgh’s South Oakland neighborhood. Police say the encounter began as a purported drug transaction on Ward Street after Abdul-Rabb drove a rental car to meet two men. Those men were later identified as 22-year-old Shayne Andrew Craighead and 21-year-old Velmon Dowling.

According to reports, Craighead and Dowling got into Abdul-Rabb’s vehicle, an altercation occurred, and Craighead allegedly produced a revolver and shot Abdul-Rabb. The two then fled in the victim’s rental car, leaving him in the street. Surveillance footage reportedly captured the incident and both men were located and arrested the next day. Craighead reportedly confessed to the shooting and to disposing of the weapon by throwing it off a bridge; both men were charged with homicide.

In March 2019 Craighead pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, robbery, and related charges and received a sentence of 17 and a half to 40 years. Does anyone have information about Abdul-Rabb’s activities that day or recall seeing a rental car in South Oakland that afternoon?