Seneca Byrd, a 38-year-old Black man, was shot and killed on June 10, 2015, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, after an argument that began inside the Tube City Café (also called Tube City Saloon) on Fifth Avenue spilled into the street. Police were called shortly before 10 p.m.; Byrd was found collapsed in the 900 block of Fifth Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified him; some reports called him Seneca Stephen Byrd Sr., and an obituary listed his residence as Pittsburgh while noting he was born in McKeesport.

Investigators said the dispute continued outside between Byrd and the alleged shooter, Rahman Shaw, and witnesses reported hearing gunfire and finding broken glass. Police recovered 10 shell casings near where Byrd died, and prosecutors later said five bullets struck him. A later report stated Byrd was holding a folding knife and a straight razor in his right hand when officers arrived.

Rahman Shaw, then 26 and of McKeesport, was arrested two days later and charged with criminal homicide, a weapons violation, and tampering with evidence. Court proceedings that summer included a July preliminary hearing and a plea in 2016 in which Shaw admitted to a firearms violation and tampering and pleaded no contest to a general count of criminal homicide, with the degree to be determined by the judge. Does anyone have additional details about the scene that night or knew Seneca Byrd?