Dai’Shawn Akeem Grace, a 27-year-old Black man, was making the last leg of a trip home late on September 23, 2019, after riding a Port Authority bus from downtown Pittsburgh to Munhall. Investigators said he got off near West Street and East 20th Street and started walking along Ridge Way, the kind of ordinary route that turns familiar after enough nights and enough shifts.
Just before midnight, that ordinary walk was shattered.
Munhall police and paramedics were called to the area of Maple Street and Ridge Way after reports of shots fired a little after 11:50 p.m., and they found Grace suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Authorities said he was taken to a hospital, but he did not survive.
In the first hours and days after the killing, detectives described a case with more questions than answers. The motive was unclear, and police said there were no suspects identified, asking anyone who knew something—anything—to call the county tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS.
As time moved on, the public picture of the investigation remained painfully spare: the same nighttime timeline, the same intersection, the same plea for information. Later reporting on Pittsburgh-area homicides noted that the shooting was being investigated by Allegheny County police along with the FBI, and still described the case without an identified suspect.
With no announced arrest, no publicly named suspect, and no court case to follow, the story has lingered in a kind of unresolved quiet—one that can feel louder with each passing year. Even in the limited way the case surfaced in public, the absence of new details left those who cared about Grace with the same hollow gap between what happened and why it happened, forced to live inside the unanswered space where updates should have been.
