Derrick Brown was 32 when he was shot and killed in a Pittsburgh park on May 27, 2012. Police answered calls around 9:00 p.m. at a park on Strauss Street in the Perry South neighborhood on the North Side and found Brown with a single, fatal gunshot wound to the chest. Bystanders attempted CPR before EMS arrived; he was taken to Allegheny General Hospital and pronounced dead.

City homicide detectives investigated and the Allegheny County medical examiner confirmed the cause of death, but the early probe produced few public leads. By October 2012 no suspects or arrests had been announced, and the case later went cold with no charges filed. The person or persons responsible for the shooting in the park that May evening remain unknown to the public.

If anyone was in the Strauss Street park that night or has information about Derrick’s death, please share what is known with investigators.