Mother of 11-year-old boy shot, killed in Mount Oliver still searching for answers 8 years later

MOUNT OLIVER, Pa. — It has been eight years since 11-year-old David McIntyre was shot to death inside his family’s home in Mount Oliver.

As his mother, Amanda Gordon, remembers her fearless and fun-loving son, she can’t help but smile and laugh, but she said she continues to cry inside.

“Time heals all wounds,” Gordon said using air quotes. “I feel it’s my time to heal, my son’s time to heal.”

McIntyre was killed as he and his older brother played video games in their living room.

“It’s rough,” Gordon said. “He was robbed from his life but I was robbed from my child. My children, robbed of their brother.”

On Nov. 1, 2015, police said a man walked through an unlocked screen door at the family’s Hays Street house and opened fire. McIntyre’s brother C.J., who was 16 at the time, was seriously hurt but his younger brother died immediately.

“Sometimes it’s unexplainable,” Gordon said. “Sometimes there’s words and sometimes there’s not. I feel this person who had shot my children is vile, despicable, disgusting.”

Several years later, McIntyre’s murder remains unsolved.

Tuesday, Allegheny County police told Channel 11 that the case is still an active and open investigation, but sadly, there are no updates.

Gordon is determined to keep it from going cold. She’s pleading with people to come forward.

“Someone had to have heard something, had to have seen something that was unusual that day,” she said. “Parent to parent, mother to mother, please come forward with any information. It’s the littlest things sometimes that could be the big combustible element that blows the case right open.”

Gordon has this message for the man who killed her son.

“The person, when they came in, did not conceal their identity, so it makes me furious they conceal it today,” she said. “Be a man and come forward.”

Gordon said the killer wasn’t wearing a mask when he came into their home.

County police are urging anyone who might have seen or heard something that day to contact the tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS (1-833-255-8477).

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