Marcus Critten

Marcus Critten was a young man from the Glen Hazel neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Public records and local reporting identify him as a 22-year-old resident of the Roselle/Rosselle Court area who was part of the tight-knit community there. While details about his family life, work, or education are not available in the public notices located during this research, multiple contemporary news accounts show that he was known to neighbors and that his death on October 13, 2014, touched people across the neighborhood.

Neighbors responded with grief and calls for peace after Marcus’s death; community members and local organizations held vigils and walks to remember him and to urge an end to violence in Glen Hazel. Those community responses indicate that Marcus’s loss was felt personally by people in his neighborhood — residents who gathered to sing, pray, and support one another in the days that followed.

Because no published family obituary or funeral-home notice matching both his full name and the exact date of death was found in public obituary archives during this search, the fuller private details of Marcus’s life (such as employment, schooling, or surviving relatives) could not be verified from available public sources. What is clear from reliable local reporting is that Marcus was a real person whose death on October 13, 2014, left a mark on his community. This remembrance honors him by acknowledging his presence in Glen Hazel and the grief of neighbors who sought to honor his memory.

If the family or close friends wish to provide additional details or a family-authorized notice, those would allow a fuller, more personal memorial to celebrate Marcus’s life beyond what public records and news reports record.