Loved Ones Still Hoping For Justice In McKeesport Murder, 3 Years Later
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It's a murder that happened three years ago, but so far there are no arrests.
Saturday night, the victim's family and friends held a vigil, still hoping for justice.
They released blue balloons, the favorite color of James Andre Lane Sims, who was shot in his car at the corner of Versailles and Pirl in 2012. He died five days later.
His mother says he wasn't into drugs and worked two jobs to get the things in life he wanted. And she wasn't aware of any drug or gang connections.
"It's too much," said his mother Wanda Sims. "It's too much."
The candles have been lit before on each of the anniversaries of his death, for which there have still been no arrests.
"Someone needs to come forward, because there's a lot of people in McKeesport who know what happened to my son, but they won't tell police, but they'll tell me," said Sims. "I don't need to hear it. The police do."
And having no resolution has taken its toll over the years.
"A friend of mine just got killed over in Clairton yesterday," Sim said. "For what? For nothing. Now his mother has to go through the same pain as I do and all the rest of the mothers. It's too much."
"Horrible," said his sister, Claudia Sims. "There's no words to describe how it feels."
After the vigil, they marched a few blocks down Versailles Avenue to McKeesport Versailles Cemetery, to his grave.
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