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Roberto Facio-Ledesma was a 41-year-old Hispanic owner of Leslie’s Hair Salon on Main Street in Newberry, South Carolina. On a Wednesday afternoon in August 2015, a family member who stopped by the salon around 2 p.m. to bring him lunch found him dead inside. The autopsy determined a single gunshot wound to the head — a laceration to the brain — and the death was classified as a homicide, described by authorities as execution-style. He left behind a wife and daughter.

Investigators from the Newberry Police Department, the Newberry County Sheriff’s Office, and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division identified a suspect later that evening: 32-year-old Kenny Octavis Ruff of Newberry. According to the investigation, Ruff forced Facio-Ledesma to disconnect the salon’s surveillance DVR, then forced him to his knees and shot him in the back of the head at point-blank range. Ruff fled with the DVR in a white trash bag; the bag, the damaged DVR and a shirt Ruff had worn were recovered from a nearby apartment complex dumpster. FBI-extracted footage and other business surveillance and witness statements placed Ruff at the scene.

Does anyone have memories of Leslie’s Hair Salon, knew Roberto, or saw anything in downtown Newberry on that August afternoon that could help fill in unanswered details?