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On July 24, 1994, 23-year-old Randy Hawkins was fatally shot at the Manchester Elementary School playground basketball court in the Manchester neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hawkins had played basketball and football at Langley High School, was working as a waiter at a downtown hotel and lived with his mother, Gwendolyn Hawkins. He was reportedly planning to secure a better job before starting a family.
The shooter was 15-year-old Scott Walker, who rode his bicycle to the court armed with a chrome-plated revolver he had purchased and fired two shots that killed Hawkins. Walker later claimed his motive was retaliation for an alleged earlier assault by Hawkins and three other men that summer, but law enforcement said they had no record of such an incident. Walker was tried as an adult, convicted of murder and, at 16 at sentencing, received a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. From prison he later expressed remorse and said he had been in a weird state of mind from drugs and gang influence.
Did anyone who knew Randy or who was in Manchester that summer see him at the playground that day or have information about the events earlier that summer?