Josiah Battle-Davis, a 26-year-old Black male from Pittsburgh, was the person found dead after a shooting in the city's Hazelwood neighborhood in January 2019. The public record of the case places the discovery just after midnight on Friday, January 11, 2019, though one gun-violence memorial listing records his loss as January 10. Police found him inside a silver SUV parked along the 200 block of Glenwood Avenue.
The scene suggested that the vehicle had been sitting there for some time
before anyone realized what had happened. The SUV was reportedly still running when officers arrived, and witnesses told police it had been parked on the street since earlier in the day. Battle-Davis was found in the driver's area of the vehicle, fatally shot. The driver's-side window had been shattered by a bullet, pointing investigators toward a shooting that appeared to have happened while he was inside or near the vehicle.
In the hours after he was found, Pittsburgh police treated the death as a homicide investigation. Detectives looked for surveillance cameras in the area that might have captured the moments before or after the shooting, including anyone approaching the SUV or leaving the block. Public reports did not describe a motive, and no account located from the time identified a confrontation, robbery, argument, or other specific event leading up to the gunfire.
No suspect was publicly identified in the available reports. Police asked anyone with information to contact Pittsburgh homicide detectives, but later public homicide roundups still listed the case as one in which authorities had not named a suspect. No public source located reported an arrest, criminal charges, trial, or conviction connected to Battle-Davis's killing.
After his death, funeral notices and memorial pages identified him as Josiah Battle-Davis of the Pittsburgh area and showed that family and friends gathered for services in Homewood. Online memorial entries described grief from people who knew him, while gun-violence memorial postings remembered him as someone loved by family and friends. The case remained publicly described as an unsolved Hazelwood shooting, with Battle-Davis's life ending in a running SUV on Glenwood Avenue and no publicly named person held responsible.
