Michael Dean, 26, was found dead inside his Benwood Avenue home in Stowe (near McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania) in the late afternoon of November 22, 2023. His parents discovered him on the living room floor after he failed to answer a pre-arranged meeting; a spent shell casing was found on the front porch. Investigators determined Dean had been fatally shot and treated the death as a homicide.

Security camera footage from the residence showed three people trying to force their way into the home. Video captured one person firing a single round through the front door after Dean had slammed it shut; that shot struck and killed him. Two people were arrested in connection with the killing: 43-year-old Arrmon Hagans and a teenager identified as Cy-Miar Amari Woods. Hagans was linked partly through license-plate tracking to a local tavern, was arrested at a hotel about a week after the shooting, and was reported to have the murder weapon. Hagans later named Woods as the shooter.

In March 2026 Woods, then 16 at the time of the incident, went to trial; the prosecution relied on Hagans’ testimony while the defense challenged its reliability.

Did anyone in the area see the three people on or near Benwood Avenue that afternoon, or have additional information about the third person seen on the footage?