Shawneal Boggus, a 21-year-old Black male from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was reported killed on July 20, 2008, in a homicide recorded at 2435 Chauncey Drive in the city's 15219 ZIP code, in Allegheny County. The listed incident location places the case in the Bedford Dwellings area of Pittsburgh, where the address is associated with public housing buildings. Online records describe the offense as murder, but the publicly available case summaries do not give a fuller scene narrative, do not identify what led up to the killing, and list the specific cause as unknown.
The available records leave the case with a stark outline: Boggus died young, his death was entered among Pittsburgh homicides from the summer of 2008, and the investigating agency was the Pittsburgh Police Department. His case appears in online cold-case and homicide-tracking records alongside other Pittsburgh victims from the same period, reflecting a violent stretch in Allegheny County that summer. The records do not describe whether he was found outside or inside, whether witnesses were present, whether the shooting or assault was targeted, or whether investigators publicly released a motive.
No named suspect appears in the online case information I found. The suspect field is listed as unknown, and the case status is listed as unsolved. I found no online record showing that anyone was arrested, charged, tried, or convicted in connection with Boggus' death. The public case entry asks anyone with information to contact the Pittsburgh Police Department, indicating that investigators still needed help identifying whoever was responsible.
As it stands in the available online sources, Boggus' death remains a cold case built from only a few public facts: he was killed in Pittsburgh on July 20, 2008, the case was treated as a murder, the incident was tied to Chauncey Drive, and no suspect has been publicly named in the records located. His story is therefore not one with a public courtroom ending or a known arrest trail, but one that remains open, with the central questions of who killed him and why still unanswered.
