Justen Anderson was 19 when he was killed in the North Side of Pittsburgh in the early hours of November 5, 2008. He was in a second-floor bedroom on East Marshall Avenue when a single shot was fired through the window from outside, striking him in the arm and chest; he died shortly afterward. Others were in the house but there were no direct witnesses to the shooting.

At the time of the killing Anderson was cooperating with police as a witness in a separate homicide from September 28, 2008, involving the death of Jason Brown. He had been standing next to Brown when Devon Shealey allegedly shot Brown, and Shealey was wanted on an active arrest warrant. Investigators noted Anderson’s cooperation as a possible motive but could not definitively confirm his role as the reason he was targeted.

Described by acquaintances as an upstanding young man, Anderson had no criminal record and had graduated from the McNaugher Special Education Center. The case has been difficult to solve and there appear to have been no arrests or publicly identified suspects in his murder. If anyone knew Justen or has information about that night on East Marshall Avenue, please come forward.