On the evening of February 20, 2025, 24-year-old TaQuaila L. Daniels of Pittsburgh was found outside the driver’s door of a sedan on Dearborn Street in the Garfield neighborhood with a fatal gunshot wound to the back of her head. The vehicle had reportedly collided head-on with a parked SUV, but evidence at the scene indicated a shooting inside the car rather than a conventional traffic crash.

Also killed was 35-year-old Dameon Hill, who was found in the front passenger seat with a similar gunshot wound to the back of the head. A 2-year-old boy in a rear car seat was unharmed and taken to a children’s hospital for evaluation. Investigators recovered a shell casing in the vehicle and witnesses reported seeing a male in a puffy black jacket and a ski mask flee toward North Pacific Avenue after fumbling near the passenger side.

Daniels is remembered by family as a devoted mother to an 8-year-old daughter; her brother has said he will care for the child. No arrests have been announced and the investigation remains active. Did anyone in the Garfield area see the man running from the scene or have other information that could help investigators?