Lee Massey Smith Jr. was a 16-year-old high school junior from San Diego who was killed on August 14, 2004. He was standing at a bus stop with a group when a white Ford Expedition drove by and shots were fired; Smith was struck and died. The shooting was described as one of several drive-by attacks carried out that weekend by members of a gang who were targeting rivals.

Investigators tied the vehicle to a group of suspects. A 15-year-old passenger, Dejon Satterwhite, was identified in the vehicle and later tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder, attempted premeditated murder, and shooting at an occupied vehicle; other accomplices and a related killing of Richard Wilson that same weekend were part of the case. Changes in California law led to Satterwhite’s adult convictions being converted to juvenile convictions and his release from custody in October 2020.

Does anyone have information about that day, the suspects, or community efforts that followed?