James Johnson, a 29-year-old Black man from Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, was fatally shot around 11 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in the city’s Lincoln-Lemington area. That evening he had been at the New Jug Bar and, after leaving, walked to his car in a nearby Lincoln Avenue parking lot and got inside. An assailant then ambushed him and opened fire with a weapon police described as an assault-style rifle. Johnson was struck in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene.

Pittsburgh homicide detectives immediately opened an investigation but released no information in the days afterward about a suspect or motive. As of May 2012 no arrests had been announced and the case remained unsolved. Anyone with information was asked to call 412-323-7161; anonymous tips were accepted.

If anyone was in the Lincoln Avenue area that night or knew James’s movements after the New Jug Bar, please share what you know with investigators.