Manly Theodore Banks III, 26, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of August 10, 2016, on Mt. Pleasant Road in the Northview Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Officers on patrol heard gunfire around 12:45 a.m. and found Banks with at least one gunshot wound to the chest; he was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after. Banks was awaiting the birth of his first child at the time of his death.

The investigation identified 21-year-old Jarrod Dolphin as a suspect. A witness said Dolphin, known as G, pulled out a gun and shot Banks multiple times, and surveillance footage from the area corroborated that account. Dolphin was arrested and charged with homicide and firearms violations; he was later convicted of third-degree murder and illegally carrying a firearm and sentenced to prison. Banks’ mother publicly expressed grief and frustration that the shooting could have been prevented, and the community mourned a young man remembered as having a promising future.

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