Janese Jackson Talton was 29 when she was killed in Pittsburgh on the night of January 22, 2016. Talton, a Black mother of three, had been at Cliff’s Bar & Grill in the Homewood neighborhood. Witnesses say 41-year-old Charles McKinney approached her there and made advances she rejected. After she left, McKinney followed her outside, approached again, and shot her in the chest. A bar employee saw a flash from McKinney’s hip area; Talton fell and was later pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound to the chest.

Police stopped a speeding vehicle driven by McKinney shortly after; he fled, leading officers on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash in Wilkinsburg after police fired at his car. McKinney was hospitalized with a graze wound and taken into custody. A security guard reported hearing McKinney say he would murk Talton after she rejected him. McKinney was charged with homicide and related offenses; in February 2017 he pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and several gun and fleeing charges and was sentenced to 20 to 40 years.

Did anyone who knew Janese or who was at Cliff’s that night come forward with additional details about what happened outside the bar?