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In the winter of 2015 a robbery over a video game console and some marijuana ended in the death of 31-year-old Anthony Garland. Garland, a father of five, was found dead in his Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, apartment on the evening of January 27, shot multiple times in the torso, neck, and arm. His right pants pocket had been turned inside out, a detail investigators said pointed to a robbery that turned violent.

Police focused on two men connected to the building: 21-year-old Troy Miller of Homewood and 26-year-old James Meek, who lived in the same Kelly Avenue apartment building as Garland. Phone records showed the last call Garland received came from Miller’s cell phone, and texts on that phone included a request to borrow a poundcake, slang for a handgun, for a planned job. Both men gave conflicting statements under questioning, each saying the other fired the shots. An Xbox and marijuana were taken from the apartment after the shooting.

Both suspects were arrested and charged with criminal homicide, robbery, and criminal conspiracy, and a district judge ordered them to stand trial. Did anyone in Wilkinsburg know Garland, his movements that night, or the men who visited his apartment?