Wyatt Lanell Gaza was 28 when he was shot dead on a Saturday afternoon in October 2017 on the porch of a home in the 1600 block of Jenny Lind Street in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. The confrontation began over a one-hundred-dollar debt after 28-year-old Damien Ashley arrived by car with a woman to confront Gaza and the woman about money he allegedly owed her. Gaza and Ashley argued face-to-face on the porch; Gaza’s aunt briefly checked on them and was told to go back inside. Moments later, gunfire erupted and Gaza was found in the front doorway with a gunshot wound to the chest. An exchange of gunfire occurred; Ashley was also wounded in the back and calf and left the scene, then was driven to a local hospital by the woman who had been with him.

Ashley, a convicted felon, was charged with criminal homicide and weapons offenses. The woman who accompanied him told police she witnessed him pull a gun and shoot Gaza during the dispute. In July 2019 Ashley pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and two weapons charges and was sentenced to serve between seven and a half and twenty years in state prison. Gaza’s death left his young daughter without a father.

Did anyone in McKeesport that day see or hear details about the confrontation that could shed more light on what happened?