Ronald Anderson, a 30-year-old African American man from Chester, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed on April 11, 2002, in Chester. Prosecutors said the killing grew out of a drug-related dispute rather than a random act of violence; Anderson was described in court as a friend of Shawn McKinney and as someone who obtained drugs from McKinney without paying. Authorities alleged McKinney, then 24 and living on the 600 block of West Fifth Street in Chester, shot Anderson near a city dumpster after Anderson tried to take drugs and failed to pay.

McKinney was tried in a non-jury trial before Delaware County Judge George Koudelis. In May 2004 the judge convicted him of first-degree murder based on testimony and statements McKinney had made to his girlfriend and to Detective John Easton of the Criminal Investigation Division. On June 29, 2004, McKinney was sentenced at the Media Courthouse to a mandatory life term plus 23 months on related charges. McKinney maintained his innocence at sentencing and relatives said a new eyewitness had been found after the trial; prosecutors said questions about that witness were matters for post-conviction proceedings.

Are there readers who knew Anderson or who have information about the events leading up to the shooting?