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Jacob Pushinsky was 18 and a senior at East High School when he was fatally shot on July 11, 2015, during an attempted robbery in the 200 block of East Eighth Street in Erie, Pennsylvania. A member of the Army Jr. ROTC, Pushinsky was shot once in the left side after refusing to hand over his bicycle to a teenager who had been jogging alongside him. He was pronounced dead at UPMC Hamot about 40 minutes after the shooting.

The shooter was identified as 14-year-old Derrys Sanders Jr., who pulled out a handgun and demanded the bike. Sanders turned himself in to police and was charged with criminal homicide, murder, recklessly endangering another person, robbery, possessing an instrument of crime, carrying a firearm without a license, and possession of a firearm by a minor. The case drew attention to how a 14-year-old obtained a handgun and to broader concerns about youth access to guns in the community.

Did anyone see Pushinsky or a bicycle in the area of East Eighth Street that day, or have information about how the gun changed hands?