In the early morning hours of February 15, 2015, 23-year-old Saequan Vereen was fatally shot outside Club Levelz on Ninth Avenue North in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Police found Vereen lying on the sidewalk; the medical examiner determined a gunshot wound caused trauma to his vital organs and was the cause of death.

Investigators concluded the killing was part of a murder-for-hire plot. Surveillance showed 31-year-old Kevin Tyrone Bryant waiting in the club parking lot, crouched between cars, and then shooting Vereen as he exited. Bryant was shot by club security before fleeing and was apprehended a few blocks away with a gunshot wound. Authorities later charged 35-year-old Robbie Lee Bufkin with hiring Bryant and offering money for Vereen’s killing, and 34-year-old Tiffany Miranda Taylor was charged as an accessory after the fact.

At trial in December 2016 a jury found Bryant guilty of murder and he was sentenced to life in prison. Bufkin pleaded guilty to a trafficking charge in a plea deal that dropped the murder and weapons counts and received 16 years. The case against Taylor was still pending at the time of Bryant’s conviction.

Did anyone see Vereen at Club Levelz that night or know of tensions that might explain why he was targeted?