Joseph Healy was a 71-year-old retired Catholic priest known locally as Storytelling Joe for the parables and stories he shared with children. On the morning of March 1, 2000, Healy went to a Burger King in Wilkinsburg and was fatally shot while sitting in a booth in an attack described as racially motivated.

The shooter, Ronald Taylor, also killed a maintenance worker, John Kroll, earlier that day after a dispute, then shot and killed 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student Emil Sanielevici at a nearby McDonald’s; two other men, Richard Clinger and Steven Bostard, were seriously wounded but survived. Taylor took hostages at an office building, surrendered after a two-hour standoff, and writings expressing hatred for white people were later recovered from his apartment.

Taylor was charged with multiple offenses including three counts of first-degree murder, was found competent to stand trial, and in November 2001 a jury convicted him on dozens of charges; in January the following year he received the death sentence for the murders of Healy, Kroll, and Sanielevici. Does anyone have memories of Joseph Healy or the Burger King on that morning that could shed light on his last routine visit?