Jerry Jackson, an African American man, was killed in the early hours of April 6, 1995, inside the Armstrong Tunnels in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His death followed a high-speed chase and a barrage of police gunfire—investigators later counted 51 bullets fired at the vehicle Jackson was driving. Thirty-five of those shots were discharged after the car had come to a complete stop, pinned against the tunnel wall by Officer John Charmo of the Pittsburgh Housing Authority Police.

The shooting generated controversy when investigators found Charmo had used 13 unauthorized Black Talon hollow-point bullets. A videotape of the scene that reportedly showed Jackson’s car could not have made a threatening 180-degree turn claimed by Charmo was not disclosed initially and only surfaced years later during a deposition in the family’s civil suit. A coroner’s inquest was held in 1999 after new evidence emerged. Charmo was prosecuted; a 2001 criminal trial ended with a deadlocked jury, and he later pleaded to a lesser charge and received a one-year jail sentence, serving 11 months. Community groups continued to call for public hearings as late as 2005.

Are there readers who were in Pittsburgh in 1995 or who have information about the events in the Armstrong Tunnels that night?