Mr. Brinsky said he and Mr. Bowers, 46, grew up together but that he never met Mr. Bowers’s parents and got the impression that Mr. Bowers had a difficult home life.
They drifted apart by the time they got to Baldwin High School, where Mr. Brinsky said Mr. Bowers wore a camouflage jacket and drifted alone through the halls.
Mr. Bowers is not listed in any activities or sports in his 1989 junior-class yearbook, and he does not appear in the next year’s book as a senior at all.
“He was pretty much a ghost,” Mr. Brinsky said.
Mr. Bowers said he worked as a truck driver and needed the apartment primarily to store his stuff, Ms. Owens said.
Persons:
Robert Bowers, gunning, “, ”, Jim Brinsky, Brinsky, Bowers, Mr, Kerri Owens, Owens
Organizations:
PITTSBURGH, Baldwin High School
Locations:
Pittsburgh