According to this June 27, 2007 City Paper article Riley Pettus, a homeless man from Greenmount West, was found shot to death on June 17, 2007. Mr. Pettus had been shot 3 times in the head and several time in the chest. Riley Pettus though, had been a suspect in the murder of Shirley Cooper, 72, in her apartment on Reservoir Hill on June 2 of that year. Pettus had been a boarder of Ms. Cooper. Ms. Cooper had been found stabbed several times in her chest and back.