On a Sunday in December 2017, 21-year-old James Hines was fatally shot after a workplace dispute at a Community Options Inc. group home in Baldwin Borough, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The dispute began as a verbal argument between 33-year-old coworker James D. King and another employee who was Hines’s girlfriend. When Hines intervened and told King to leave at the end of King’s shift, the argument moved outside and escalated.

A witness reported seeing King go to his car, put on blue latex gloves, retrieve a handgun, and fire several shots at Hines. Mortally wounded, Hines identified his attacker to the first responding officer before being taken to a hospital, where he died of multiple gunshot wounds. King fled in a tan Hyundai sedan and an arrest warrant was issued for homicide, recklessly endangering another person, tampering with evidence, and weapons violations. He was arrested in early January 2018 after deputies, acting on a tip, found him in a vacant house on the North Side.

At a March 2018 preliminary hearing a witness described the argument that preceded the shooting; the defense claimed self-defense and the victim’s family disputed that account. King was convicted of Hines’s murder; an appeal of the March 2019 judgment of sentence was later unsuccessful based on eyewitness identification of King as the shooter. Does anyone have additional information about Hines, the workplace, or the events that led up to that December evening?