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Yusuf Ali Abdus-Salaam, 32, was shot multiple times at about 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, in the 300 block of Hampton Road in Lancaster, South Carolina. He was taken to a local hospital and died shortly afterward.

At the time he was killed, Abdus-Salaam was out on bond awaiting trial in the 2009 beating and shooting death of Lemario Ford; prosecutors alleged he and four others had lured Ford to a vacant house and killed him in retaliation for a prior robbery. His record also included a 2014 arrest for attempted murder and armed robbery, an incident in which he allegedly forced a man to strip and then shot at him as he fled. His attorney, Dave Cook, called the killing a tragedy and said Abdus-Salaam was trying to turn his life around.

Lancaster police offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the identification and prosecution of those responsible and said they did not believe the shooting was random. No arrests have been announced; his two sons, Jy’seer Amir and Jaliel Ahmad Stover, remain without answers.

Did anyone in Lancaster see or hear anything that night that could help investigators?