Hialeah, great job! other people on the bus should be able to help LE with a description of this fellow on the bus, was he a bit of a scruffy fellow or nicely dressed. Did anyone see Susan walk along the street with him? It would be awful if she took a homeless person to the house, my gosh! Where is "common sense" & where would he get a gun? If they reside at a homeless shelter my goodness a gun would be a no no. I'd like to know if dinner was served at the home, were the plates and food still on the table. Lastly why would a homeless fellow take both cell phones?
I can't confirm this, but was told that night before last, WPXI showed a few seconds of the bus video, showing The Mystery Man. I am skeptical, as I can't find it on the net, and you'd think if police released his image, that it would be everywhere. However, my source tells me scruffy - but then again, it was about 11 degrees that night.
Witnesses say Susan was seated by him, was talking to him, and left the bus at the same time. Presumably they walked to her house together, and she let him in, for whatever reason.
He probably got the gun the way most criminals get theirs - stole it at some point, or otherwise acquired it illegally. East Liberty does a brisk trade in illegal handguns on a regular basis.
If it was a hand gun, it could be easily concealed. Do homeless shelters frisk the men who stay there for weapons, or it is "honor system"? We are also not sure he was homeless and was staying at the shelter - it just so happens that a man described as "homeless" parked a stolen car by a homeless shelter. He could have left the car by these landmarks, and gone on foot a couple of blocks to catch a bus. Or had someone in a vehicle meet him there.
The cell phones would be small and easily concealed. I guess they are popular items to steal because they can be resold.
Pure speculation with no evidence: maybe it wasn't dinner. Maybe he gained entrance to the home by offering a service - i.e., saying he could fix something, and she wanted to help him out by giving him this small job to do in the new house. That would jibe better with her telling her employer she had an appointment, rather than she was meeting someone, or having someone over for dinner.