Louis Staples III was a 21-year-old Black/African American man from Rochester who was shot and killed after a confrontation outside a neighborhood business on Lyell Avenue on March 1, 2014. According to reports, a heated argument in the parking lot of Nick’s Meat Market escalated into gunfire; Staples was struck at least once in the upper body, taken to hospital, and pronounced dead.

Investigators canvassed the area for witnesses and evidence to reconstruct the moments before the shooting and to identify who had been with Staples in the parking lot. The name Javon Sampson later appeared in connection with the incident; gun-violence records identify Sampson as the suspect and later accounts describe a weapons conviction tied to the shooting.

If anyone knew Louis Staples III, was at the scene that night, or has information about what happened outside Nick’s Meat Market, please come forward.